full-disclosure - MX of securityfocus.com lost?

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From: pb at bieringer.de (Peter Bieringer)
Subject: MX of securityfocus.com lost?

Hi,

has Symantecs some problems? Currently the MX of securityfocus.com is
completly broken. Take care of restricted postfix installations which are
configured to block senders if MX is not resolvable:

Feb 24 07:59:23 **** postfix/smtpd[***]: ****: reject: RCPT from
unknown[205.206.231.26]: 550
<bugtraq-return-****-pbieringer=example.com@...urityfocus.com>: Sender
address rejected: Domain not found;
from=<bugtraq-return-****-pbieringer=example.com@...urityfocus.com>
to=<pbieringer@...mple.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<outgoing.securityfocus.com>

Note also that the mailhost has currently no PTR for it's IPv4 address -
not very professional....

$ host -t NS securityfocus.com
securityfocus.com name server ns1.symantec.com.
securityfocus.com name server ns1.securityfocus.com.
securityfocus.com name server ns2.securityfocus.com.
securityfocus.com name server ns3.symantec.com.

$ host -t MX securityfocus.com ns1.symantec.com.
Using domain server:
Name: ns1.symantec.com.
Address: 198.6.49.5#53
Aliases:

$ host -t MX securityfocus.com ns1.securityfocus.com.
host: Couldn't find server 'ns1.securityfocus.com.': Name or service not
known

$ host -t MX securityfocus.com ns2.securityfocus.com.
host: Couldn't find server 'ns2.securityfocus.com.': Name or service not
known

$ host -t MX securityfocus.com ns3.symantec.com.
Using domain server:
Name: ns3.symantec.com.
Address: 206.204.212.86#53
Aliases:

2 of 4 specified NS servers have currently no A records...

...ohoh...

        Peter
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