couttsj Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Our DNS server has been under constant bombardment from internal Yahoo DNS servers: -------------------------------------- Total requests 73341 67.195.128.48-51 7,133 68.142.209.135-138 3,533 68.142.209.143-146 19,460 68.142.209.151-158 6,985 72.30.192.164-171 10,571 74.6.109.17-20 7,366 74.6.109.24-27 6,232 98.139.193.152-159 10,146 ------------------ ------- 2011/09/09 Total 71,426 - 97% -------------------------------------- These requests are predominately for type 99 (SPF) records, but our server does not support them. We do offer a TXT record for the purpose of supporting SPF (v=spf1 -all), but Yahoo appears to not have the ability to utilize that record. It appears that Yahoo is using SPF to delay internal mail delivery, and then eventually send a rejection email to the supposed sender. We do not offer any email services, but we do have a pseudo SMTP server running that rejects all incoming email with a 550 error. Examining the log file for the day above shows 88 rejection messages being sent from various Yahoo email servers to what are obviously random generated email addresses (eg. "RCPT TO:<yxqtdoeihiui[at]yellowhead.com>"). I have pleaded with Yahoo to address this issue, but so far the only response has been auto-generated and nothing has been done to solve the problem. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get a real person at Yahoo to at least acknowledge that the problem exists? J.A. Coutts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petzl Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 Our DNS server has been under constant bombardment from internal Yahoo DNS servers: -------------------------------------- I have pleaded with Yahoo to address this issue, but so far the only response has been auto-generated and nothing has been done to solve the problem. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get a real person at Yahoo to at least acknowledge that the problem exists? J.A. Coutts You might try their web form? http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/abuse.html Contact Web page http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yaho...ctus/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couttsj Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 You might try their web form? http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/abuse.html Contact Web page http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yaho...ctus/index.html *********** REPLY SEPARATER ************ Been there, done that. Even got a problem number, all to no avail. All I get is automated responses made to look like they are from a real person, but having nothing to do with the actual problem. J.A. Coutts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisati Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 *********** REPLY SEPARATER ************ Been there, done that. Even got a problem number, all to no avail. All I get is automated responses made to look like they are from a real person, but having nothing to do with the actual problem. J.A. Coutts That's exactly the sort of thing that prompted me to set up my own email server in preference to using the free Yahoo accounts I used to use. I am one of the many who have had cause to be grumpy with the way Yahoo deals with reports of problems, and could do a rant at this point but will skip it in the interests of not hijacking this thread any more than I have. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farelf Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 ...Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get a real person at Yahoo to at least acknowledge that the problem exists?...Hi John, I suppose you could argue it is a technical problem - have you tried their OrgTechEmail:/RTechEmail: address per ARIN, jluster[at]yahoo-inc.com ? Really, the OrgAbuseEmail:/RAbuseEmail: address, network-abuse[at]cc.yahoo-inc.com should be handling it, but I guess that's one of the sources of the auto-responses with no follow-up that you mention. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couttsj Posted September 12, 2011 Author Share Posted September 12, 2011 Hi John, I suppose you could argue it is a technical problem - have you tried their OrgTechEmail:/RTechEmail: address per ARIN, jluster[at]yahoo-inc.com ? Really, the OrgAbuseEmail:/RAbuseEmail: address, network-abuse[at]cc.yahoo-inc.com should be handling it, but I guess that's one of the sources of the auto-responses with no follow-up that you mention. Steve Using that address simply gets an automated response directing you to the Web site abuse address. I have no idea what is going on, but the bombardment suddenly quit at 09:21 this AM. J.A. Coutts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farelf Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Ah, a result then, maybe as a result of your entreaties, perhaps other complaints too. One can wish ... be nice if Yahoo placed a premium on the niceties though, very "New York"/brusque at present, it seems. Marking "resolved" anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couttsj Posted September 12, 2011 Author Share Posted September 12, 2011 Ah, a result then, maybe as a result of your entreaties, perhaps other complaints too. One can wish ... be nice if Yahoo placed a premium on the niceties though, very "New York"/brusque at present, it seems. Marking "resolved" anyway. I only wish it was resolved. The bombardment started up again at 03:25 this morning. The zero traffic from Yahoo for over 18 hours may have been because it was out of service. Absolute zero DNS traffic from yahoo is highly unusual. J.A. Coutts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farelf Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 I only wish it was resolved. The bombardment started up again at 03:25 this morning. The zero traffic from Yahoo for over 18 hours may have been because it was out of service. Absolute zero DNS traffic from yahoo is highly unusual.Oh yeah, the did have an "outage". Sacking their CEO hasn't helped anything yet. Oh well, removing the "Resolved", further suggestions from the readership on getting Yahoo's attention or otherwise resolving the problem needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couttsj Posted November 13, 2011 Author Share Posted November 13, 2011 For the past 12 days there have been zero requests for type 99 records from anywhere, and my searches for information have come up empty. Does anyone know what is going on here? Has Yahoo abandoned its SPF efforts? J.A. Coutts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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