lists.isc.org rDNS failed, DNSSEC?
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rob0 at gmx.co.uk
Thu Feb 23 14:10:02 UTC 2012
Yesterday I looked in mail logs for something else and stumbled upon
this (times are UTC):
rob0 at harrier:~$ grep 'unknown\[149\.20\.64\.75\]' /var/log/maillog | wc
271 3607 44087
rob0 at harrier:~$ grep 'unknown\[149\.20\.64\.75\]' /var/log/maillog | head -1
Feb 21 05:28:25 harrier postfix/smtpd[4653]: connect from unknown[149.20.64.75]
rob0 at harrier:~$ grep 'unknown\[149\.20\.64\.75\]' /var/log/maillog | tail -1
Feb 21 21:32:06 harrier postfix/smtpd[3575]: disconnect from unknown[149.20.64.75]
During that time I tried a "dig 75.64.20.149.in-addr.arpa. any" and
got SERVFAIL. I checked 64.20.149.in-addr.arpa at Sandia's DNSViz,
and it was fine. I was in a hurry so I didn't think to check
75.64.20.149.in-addr.arpa. I whitelisted 149.20.64.75 so this list's
mail would come through; went on with other things.
I was thinking that the problem might have been on my end, but I
changed nothing before nor since; 75.64.20.149.in-addr.arpa/IN/PTR
since 21:32 UTC yesterday has been returning "lists.isc.org."
Any idea (especially from ISC folks) what might have caused this?
This is the scary thing about DNSSEC: a lot of valid zones might
suffer from temporary glitches wherein signatures fail. I know one of
my own zones had expired signatures awhile, and I have seen it with
subscribers on my own Mailman lists.
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