From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Sep 5 01:28:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA02901 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 01:28:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netmug.org (netmug.org [207.88.43.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA02891 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 01:28:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perl@netmug.org) Received: from localhost (perl@localhost) by netmug.org (8.8.8/NetMUG_1.0.0) with SMTP id BAA10638; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 01:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 01:24:21 -0700 (PDT) From: perl To: Dean Hollister cc: Leif Neland , freebsd-isp Subject: Re: something wrong with our dns? Some servers can't send mail to a client. In-Reply-To: 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 shouldn't it be client.dom. in mx 50 mail.client.dom. ^ ^^ Michael On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Dean Hollister wrote: > On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Leif Neland wrote: > > > We are the isp for a client which we hold mail for. > > The mx records are > > client.dom mx 50 mail.client.dom > > client.dom mx 100 mail.our.dom > > Ummm, this should read: > > client.dom mx 50 mail.client.dom. > client.dom mx 100 mail.our.dom. > > Otherwise, you'll find the domain appended again, if there is no trailing > period. > > > client.dom doesn't have an ip-adress, only the mx'es shown above. > > Does the MX host itself have an "A" record in DNS? > > Regards, > > d. > > +-------------------------------------------------------+ > | Dean Hollister, | dean@mushka.ml.org | > | Perth, Western Australia. | dean@wa.apana.org.au | > +-------------------------------------------------------+ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message