From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Mar 13 09:44:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA05286 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 09:44:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bmccane.maxbaud.net ([208.155.166.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA05168 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 09:43:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmccane@bmccane.maxbaud.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by bmccane.maxbaud.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA14795; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 11:36:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bmccane) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 11:36:47 -0600 (CST) From: Wm Brian McCane To: Studded cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named errors In-Reply-To: <35084DC2.7EC20650@dal.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Studded wrote: > 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. I am not still sure what was wrong. I updated the file on my main DNS server, and did a restart on this machine (a secondary), and it did not fix the problem. So I killed 'named', rm'd the secondary file in /etc/namedb and then restarted 'named'. *PooF* it is all working. > 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. I will fix this later this afternoon. I was not aware that I could not do it that way, thanks for the heads up. Of course, a much bigger problem at this point is that my upstream feed has not registed my IN-ADDR.ARPA with MCI yet, so my Reverse DNS is still not working (can you tell I am frustrated?). I get a lot more mail problems from that than from an invalid CNAME I am sure. > Good luck, > > Doug > Have fun, brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message