Yeah, Proofpoint's incident dashboard suggests it's still ongoing, but
I'm not able to reproduce it from here, or via testing a number of
various public resolvers.
Maybe it's already resolved and the dashboard needs updating.
Example of my lookups:
https://www.wombatmail.com/dns.cgi?t=mx&d=salesforce.com&m=yes

Cheers,
Al Iverson

On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 11:27 AM Ferris, Rhys (SAA) via mailop
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> They sent this out:
>
>
>
> This is a Proofpoint Communication Service (PCS) Alert for informational 
> purposes only.
>
> Proofpoint is experiencing a production incident. Visit 
> https://proofpoint.my.site.com/community/s/proofpoint-current-incidents for 
> more information.
>
> If you have further questions, please open a ticket in PCSC or call the 
> support hotline. Do not distribute this communication to any 3rd party.
>
>
>
>
>
> Rhys (R-ee-s) Ferris
> Senior Systems Engineer
> Identity and Collaboration Operations (ICO)
> United States Senate, Sergeant at Arms
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>
>
> From: mailop <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dmytro Homoniuk via 
> mailop
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2026 11:10 AM
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [mailop] themofisher.com with pphosted.com MX entries that don’t 
> resolve (NXDOMAIN)
>
>
>
> I'm seeing a lot of DNS resolution issues on pphosted domains in general in 
> the last two hours.
> Also seems like a bunch of cusotmers are complaining they can't access 
> Proofpoint at all https://statusgator.com/services/proofpoint
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 3:38 PM Atro Tossavainen via mailop 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 03:12:43PM +0200, Paul Menzel via mailop wrote:
> > Dear Mail Operators,
> >
> >
> > If somebody has any contacts to thermofisher.com, please tell them,
> > that currently their email setup is broken:
>
> Appears to have been fixed:
>
> $ dig +short thermofisher.com MX
> 10 ppmxb.thermofisher.com.
> 10 ppmxa.thermofisher.com.
>
> (and they have IPs.)
>
> >
> >     $ host thermofisher.com
> >     thermofisher.com has address 208.89.143.75
> >     thermofisher.com mail is handled by 10 mxb-002a2102.gslb.pphosted.com.
> >     thermofisher.com mail is handled by 10 mxa-002a2102.gslb.pphosted.com.
> >     $ host mxb-002a2102.gslb.pphosted.com.
> >     Host mxb-002a2102.gslb.pphosted.com. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> >     $ host mxa-002a2102.gslb.pphosted.com.
> >     Host mxa-002a2102.gslb.pphosted.com. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> >     $
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > PS: Verified by Google DNS:
> >
> > ```
> > $ dig @8.8.8.8 mx mxb-002a2102.gslb.pphosted.com.
> >
> > ; <<>> DiG 9.20.26-1-Debian <<>> @8.8.8.8 mx mxb-002a2102.gslb.pphosted.com.
> > ; (1 server found)
> > ;; global options: +cmd
> > ;; Got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 16784
> > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
> >
> > ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> > ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
> > ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> > ;mxb-002a2102.gslb.pphosted.com.      IN      MX
> >
> > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > gslb.pphosted.com.    55      IN      SOA     ns-sc4.proofpoint.com.
> > ops.proofpoint.com. 2026091872 10800 3600 604800 60
> >
> > ;; Query time: 20 msec
> > ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) (UDP)
> > ;; WHEN: Fri Aug 14 15:11:40 CEST 2026
> > ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 117
> >
> > ```
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