It could also be a really cleaver security ploy to see if there are any close matches to your domain name or URL that turn up copycats or bad guys.
For example, typing Walmrat into Chrome and pressing Ctrl+Enter used turn up a copycat Walmart site, but now one accesses a correctly spelled
Walmart URL and the actual website. As another illustration, at least it used to be common with misspelled bank names to access a copycat
website or one or more claiming a special connection to the actual bank.
The Web is like Europe before and during the 1100 s when it was common for unemployed soldiers to roam the highways and byways looking
for people to rob and damsels to distress. We need something like knighthood, the first state police.
Charles Elliott
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On 7. 5. 2021, at 21:11, Mark Andrews <***@isc.org <mailto:***@isc.org> > wrote:
Some piece of software trying to speed up resolution by resolving names as you type.
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On 8 May 2021, at 04:21, Kevin A. McGrail <***@pccc.com <mailto:***@pccc.com> > wrote:

Weird.
Thoughts are:
Bad software? What we call ratware.
UDP/TCP Firewall issues?
Regards,
KAM
On 5/7/2021 1:32 PM, Kevin Kretz wrote:
I see occasional series of queries like this, from within my network and among disparate types of host (linux, windows):
If there's a host called
hostname.mynet.com
I'll see a sequence of queries like
hostname.m
hostname.my
hostname.myn
hostname.myne
hostname.mynet
hostname.mynet.c
hostname.mynet.co
hostname.mynet.com
Can anyone tell me what this is?
thanks
Kevin
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