Re: Bogus "non-existent domain in From:" bounce

Lyle <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:17:21 -0600
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the authoritive name servers for txercoupemuseum.org  are:


ns1.fatcow.com 65.254.254.100

ns2.fatcow.com 65.254.254.101

ns3.fatcow.com 65.254.254.120

Looks like they are all on on /24 subnet.  Traceroute shows all three 
pass through 216.55.5.134(xo network)

The above three ip addresses show as belonging to The endurance 
International Group, Inc as part of a /19 they have and show an address 
in Burlington, MA.


My first guess is you are hitting DNS when all three have disappeared 
from the Internet and you don't have valid info in your DNS server's cache.


My guess is that it's a DNS problem on their end and their fatcow DNS 
servers are disappearing from the Internet from time to time.


For my company, I rent a server from Linode in their Dallas/Ft Worth, 
Texas data center as a slave for the two DNS servers in house.  Then an 
outage here does not drop DNS resolution and generate the non-existance 
message you are getting.

Lyle Giese
LCR Computer Services, Inc.

On 12/14/16 18:22, Gib Henry wrote:
>
> From time to time I receive copies of my server’s outgoing bounce 
> messages (from mailerdaemon)with the offending incoming messages 
> attached.  The reason stated for the bounce, in this case,is that 
> there is a non-existent domain in the From: header of the incoming 
> message.  However that is not true; the domain name 
> txercoupemuseum.orgdoes exist:
>
> /usr/bin/host -t a txercoupemuseum.org
> txercoupemuseum.org has address 65.254.227.240
>
> The log shows:
>
> 17:40:04.000 1 DEQUEUER [2420011] SYSTEM(gib) failed: non-existent domain (txercoupemuseum.org) in From:
> 17:40:04.802 2 SMTP-000007(*) [2420014] sent encrypted [192.168.1.2]:50534 -> [97.78.41.43]:2501,
>      got:250 4123891 message accepted for delivery
>
> Do I have a DNS problem?  It happens too rarely to justify increasing 
> the log level, but…? Cheers,
> --
> Gib Henry
>
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    <p>the authoritive name servers for txercoupemuseum.org  are:</p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>ns1.fatcow.com 65.254.254.100<br>
    </p>
    <p>ns2.fatcow.com 65.254.254.101<br>
    </p>
    <p>ns3.fatcow.com 65.254.254.120<br>
    </p>
    <p>Looks like they are all on on /24 subnet.  Traceroute shows all
      three pass through 216.55.5.134(xo network)</p>
    <p>The above three ip addresses show as belonging to The endurance
      International Group, Inc as part of a /19 they have and show an
      address in Burlington, MA.</p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>My first guess is you are hitting DNS when all three have
      disappeared from the Internet and you don't have valid info in
      your DNS server's cache.  <br>
    </p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>My guess is that it's a DNS problem on their end and their fatcow
      DNS servers are disappearing from the Internet from time to time.<br>
    </p>
    <br>
    For my company, I rent a server from Linode in their Dallas/Ft
    Worth, Texas data center as a slave for the two DNS servers in
    house.  Then an outage here does not drop DNS resolution and
    generate the non-existance message you are getting.<br>
    <br>
    Lyle Giese<br>
    LCR Computer Services, Inc.<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/14/16 18:22, Gib Henry wrote:<br>
    </div>
    <blockquote cite="mid:[email protected]" type="cite">
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      <p><font face="Georgia" size="+1">From time to time I receive
          copies of my server’s outgoing bounce messages (from
          mailerdaemon)</font><font face="Georgia" size="+1"> with the
          offending incoming messages attached.  T</font><font
          face="Georgia" size="+1">he reason stated for the bounce</font><font
          face="Georgia" size="+1">, in this case,</font><font
          face="Georgia" size="+1"> is that there is a non-existent
          domain in the From: header of the incoming message.  However
          that is not true; the domain name </font>txercoupemuseum.org<font
          face="Georgia" size="+1"> does exist:</font></p>
      <p>/usr/bin/host -t a txercoupemuseum.org<br>
        txercoupemuseum.org has address 65.254.227.240<br>
      </p>
      <p><font face="Georgia" size="+1">The log shows:</font><br>
      </p>
      <p>
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
          charset=utf-8">
      </p>
      <pre class="logViewInline">17:40:04.000 1 DEQUEUER [2420011] SYSTEM(gib) failed: non-existent domain (txercoupemuseum.org) in From:
17:40:04.802 2 SMTP-000007(*) [2420014] sent encrypted [192.168.1.2]:50534 -&gt; [97.78.41.43]:2501, 
    got:250 4123891 message accepted for delivery
</pre>
      <p><font face="Georgia" size="+1">Do I have a DNS problem?  It
          happens too rarely to justify increasing the log level, but…? 
          Cheers,<br>
          --<br>
          Gib Henry<br>
        </font></p>
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