From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 25 5: 3:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2FBE37BC4F for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 05:03:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA18489; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:08:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:08:33 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: vagner Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad dest address Message-ID: <20000225080833.D18112@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <001001bf7f6e$25f979e0$b3b65c8b@oemcomputer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <001001bf7f6e$25f979e0$b3b65c8b@oemcomputer>; from george@www.timandpatrick.com on Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 10:56:03AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 10:56:03AM +0200, vagner wrote: > I am lost as to why I keep getting this error. > > > I host my domain name on another server and point it to my machine This means that there is some hostname pointing it to your machine? What is being pointed exactly? > Also I have a dns server running on my other machine with the mail MX > Record pointing to itself. OK, so that is not pointing at your machine. > I am getting Bad destination system address when sending to the other > machine. When sending... what? Email I assume? > I can lookup the dns via nslookup and it seems ok it comes back with the > Correct address. Good. But can you find the MX record? > I checked hosts, named, sendmail.cf etc and cant figure out why. > > The domain is vetex.com I must say that your DNS is really messed up for that domain. % dig vetex.com any ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> vetex.com any ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; vetex.com, type = ANY, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: vetex.com. 1d21h31m25s IN NS NS1.EARTHLINK.NET. vetex.com. 1d21h31m25s IN NS WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM. vetex.com. 55m11s IN A 24.14.27.99 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: vetex.com. 1d21h31m25s IN NS NS1.EARTHLINK.NET. vetex.com. 1d21h31m25s IN NS WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: NS1.EARTHLINK.NET. 1d9h50m33s IN A 207.217.126.41 WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM. 1d20h4m47s IN A 24.1.216.237 ;; Total query time: 1 msec ;; FROM: cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1 ;; WHEN: Fri Feb 25 08:01:41 2000 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 27 rcvd: 169 % dig @NS1.EARTHLINK.NET vetex.com any ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @NS1.EARTHLINK.NET vetex.com any ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; vetex.com, type = ANY, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: vetex.com. 1d5h26m23s IN NS NS1.EARTHLINK.NET. vetex.com. 1d5h26m23s IN NS WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: vetex.com. 1d5h26m23s IN NS NS1.EARTHLINK.NET. vetex.com. 1d5h26m23s IN NS WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: NS1.EARTHLINK.NET. 1D IN A 207.217.126.41 WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM. 1d14h30m25s IN A 24.1.216.237 ;; Total query time: 113 msec ;; FROM: cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com to SERVER: NS1.EARTHLINK.NET 207.217.12 6.41 ;; WHEN: Fri Feb 25 08:04:47 2000 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 27 rcvd: 153 % dig @WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM vetex.com any ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM vetex.com any ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; vetex.com, type = ANY, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: vetex.com. 1H IN SOA www.timandpatrick.com. root.www.timandpa trick.com. ( 7 ; serial 3H ; refresh 1H ; retry 1W ; expiry 1H ) ; minimum vetex.com. 1H IN NS www.timandpatrick.com. vetex.com. 1H IN A 24.14.27.99 ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: www.timandpatrick.com. 1H IN A 24.1.216.237 ;; Total query time: 93 msec ;; FROM: cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com to SERVER: WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM 24.1.2 16.237 ;; WHEN: Fri Feb 25 08:04:59 2000 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 27 rcvd: 135 -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message