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DNS lookup in Bro using the when statement
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dns-lookup.bro
when (local result = lookup_addr("www.bro-ids.org"))
{
for (addr in result)
print addr;
}
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jbaggs commented Jun 19, 2018 •
edited

The lookup_addr function takes an ip address as its argument, and performs a reverse-dns lookup. The function used here should be lookup_hostname.

https://www.bro.org/sphinx/scripts/base/bif/bro.bif.bro.html#id-lookup_hostname

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