From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 12 13:04:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27672 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:04:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050ndd.san.rr.com (root@dt050ndd.san.rr.com [204.210.31.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27653 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:04:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (dougdougdougdoug@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050ndd.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14935; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:04:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <35084DC2.7EC20650@dal.net> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:04:02 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-BETA-0310 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wm Brian McCane CC: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named errors References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wm Brian McCane wrote: > > I am getting the following message (and many similar to it) in my log files. > > sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) on maxbaud.net? NXDOMAIN is generally returned by a nameserver when it thinks it should be authoritative for a domain but it has no records. It's not related to reverse mapping, but it does indicate a fairly serious problem. As of serial number 98031201 you seem to have things straightened out, so hopefully you found the error. One error that you SHOULD change is that your main MX record points to a CNAME (mail.maxbaud.net). This is an absolute violation of the RFC's and some mailers on the internet will not be able to send you mail because of the error. The simple solution is to change the CNAME record for mail to an A record and give it the same IP as maxbaud.net. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message