question about resolving of AAAA amazoses.com

Petr Špaček pspacek at isc.org
Fri Jul 4 08:13:56 UTC 2025


On 04. 07. 25 9:56, Florian Piekert via bind-users wrote:
> 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?

No, it's misconfiguration on the auth side. See e.g.
https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2021-January/104064.html
for an explanation.

-- 
Petr Špaček
Internet Systems Consortium


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