2019-05-20-2318Z


I haven't been getting email notifications from PayPal for some time now. a while back I thought it was because PayPal was sending from a subdomain, so I added *.paypal.com to my /etc/exim4/local_sender_whitelist, but that didn't help. today I poked around a bit more and found something strange: I'm not able to pull PayPal's txt record from my mailserver, regardless of what I use for a DNS server. I can get other records from paypal.com, and I can get txt records from other domains. and I can pull paypal.com's txt records from my computer at home.

jcomeau@bendergift:~/rentacoder/dbender/approaching$ ssh ns002.jcomeau.com dig paypal.com txt
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
;; Connection to 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) for paypal.com failed: connection refused.
;; Connection to 8.8.4.4#53(8.8.4.4) for paypal.com failed: connection refused.
jcomeau@bendergift:~/rentacoder/dbender/approaching$ ssh ns002.jcomeau.com dig paypal.com txt @1.1.1.1
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
;; Connection to 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1) for paypal.com failed: connection refused.
jcomeau@bendergift:~/rentacoder/dbender/approaching$ dig paypal.com txt

; <<>> DiG 9.11.4-4-Debian <<>> paypal.com txt ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39564 ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 7, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1452 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;paypal.com. IN TXT

;; ANSWER SECTION: paypal.com. 300 IN TXT "workplace-domain-verification=F7ezsH9uapvYDGd2VtPARy1qq9ymN6" paypal.com. 300 IN TXT "google-site-verification=Mfy_g_Azi4RuSGy1j4xdt9Rd11lTVk7pXIqqFs6OkkQ" paypal.com. 300 IN TXT "adobe-idp-site-verification=11600efbec96c0e73dd8820cd33ca906ec4302aea4487d208a42a2b01806144c" paypal.com. 300 IN TXT "v=spf1 include:pp._spf.paypal.com include:3ph1._spf.paypal.com include:3ph2._spf.paypal.com include:3ph3._spf.paypal.com include:3ph4._spf.paypal.com include:3ph5._spf.paypal.com ~all" paypal.com. 300 IN TXT "MS=ms95960309" paypal.com. 300 IN TXT "yandex-verification: 73acb90f6a9abd76" paypal.com. 300 IN TXT "docusign=c02299a9-ebd1-4f91-b060-fb630d97355f"

;; Query time: 19 msec ;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1) ;; WHEN: Mon May 20 16:14:56 PDT 2019 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 628

any ideas? I'm stumped. I've added paypal.com to the whitelist though.

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