question about resolving of AAAA amazoses.com

Florian Piekert floppy at floppy.org
Fri Jul 4 07:56:00 UTC 2025


Hello all,

I frequently have this in my logs

May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: DNS format error from 2600:9000:5303:c800::1#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: resolver: notice: DNS format error from 2600:9000:5303:c800::1#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: DNS format error from 2600:9000:5303:c800::1#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: DNS format error from 2600:9000:5304:dc00::1#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: resolver: notice: DNS format error from 2600:9000:5304:dc00::1#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: DNS format error from 2600:9000:5304:dc00::1#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: DNS format error from 2600:9000:5306:cb00::1#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: resolver: notice: DNS format error from 2600:9000:5306:cb00::1#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: DNS format error from 2600:9000:5306:cb00::1#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: DNS format error from 2600:9000:5300:5200::1#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: resolver: notice: DNS format error from 2600:9000:5300:5200::1#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: DNS format error from 2600:9000:5300:5200::1#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: DNS format error from 205.251.195.200#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: resolver: notice: DNS format error from 205.251.195.200#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: DNS format error from 205.251.195.200#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: DNS format error from 205.251.196.220#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: resolver: notice: DNS format error from 205.251.196.220#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: DNS format error from 205.251.196.220#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: DNS format error from 205.251.198.203#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: resolver: notice: DNS format error from 205.251.198.203#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: DNS format error from 205.251.198.203#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: DNS format error from 205.251.192.82#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: resolver: notice: DNS format error from 205.251.192.82#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response
May  4 14:29:16 sonne named[4035767]: DNS format error from 205.251.192.82#53 resolving feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com/AAAA for 127.0.0.1#44099: Name us-east-1.amazonses.com (SOA) not subdomain of zone feedback-smtp.us-east-1.amazonses.com -- invalid response

and was wondering IF there is a misconfiguration on my bind?

My guess is no, but I thought I'd better ask for confirmation.

Florian



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