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CAS-003 · Question #153

The security engineer receives an incident ticket from the helpdesk stating that DNS lookup requests are no longer working from the office. The network team has ensured that Layer 2 and Layer 3…

The correct answer is D. NMAP. NMAP works as a port scanner and is used to check if the DNS server is listening on port 53.

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Question

The security engineer receives an incident ticket from the helpdesk stating that DNS lookup requests are no longer working from the office. The network team has ensured that Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity are working. Which of the following tools would a security engineer use to make sure the DNS server is listening on port 53?

Options

  • APING
  • BNESSUS
  • CNSLOOKUP
  • DNMAP

How the community answered

(41 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • C
    5% (2)
  • D
    93% (38)

Explanation

NMAP works as a port scanner and is used to check if the DNS server is listening on port 53.

Topics

#DNS#port scanning#NMAP#network troubleshooting

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