[CentOS] Postfix - message queue filling with Host or name not found - try again
Ben McGinnes
ben at adversary.org
Sun Nov 21 12:00:47 UTC 2010
On 17/11/10 7:26 AM, Rob Kampen wrote:
>
>>> Examining the postfix queue with postqueue -p: I see many
>>> (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for
>>> name=bdgiedjhea.po6e4ina.com type=MX: Host not found, try again)
>>> Jake at bdgiedjhea.po6e4ina.com
>>> My question - why does this stay in the message queue - why not dumped
>>> back with message undeliverable or dropped?
What is the complete output of postqueue -p? What is the From address
and, more to the point, is it MAILER-DAEMON?
> Agreed, however this opens a potential DoS attack vector - I'm
> trying to determine why my postfix even has these requests present
> as I'm not initiating the emails (as far as I know) and I do not
> forward emails for any other domains.
> I feel like I'm missing something......confused maybe
It could be backscatter.
Run postqueue -p and pick one of the messages, it shouldn't matter
which. Then run:
postcat -q $MSGID | less
Where $MSGID is one of the messages in the queue. That will show you
the message and headers. I'd be willing to bet it's your server
trying to send a rejection/spam detection to a server.
Regards,
Ben
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