From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 2:13:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.techsupport.co.uk (cabletel1.cableol.net [194.168.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACAAE37B424 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 02:13:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ceri@techsupport.co.uk) Received: from ceri by cartman.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.22 #2) id 1528Fu-0000k5-00; Tue, 22 May 2001 10:15:06 +0100 Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 10:15:06 +0100 From: Ceri To: Alex as Root Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS reverse lookup issues Message-ID: <20010522101506.A359@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> References: <200105220617.f4M6HgC51615@gouda.acatysmoof.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105220617.f4M6HgC51615@gouda.acatysmoof.com>; from root@gouda.acatysmoof.com on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:17:42PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:17:42PM -0700, Alex as Root said: > > I am trying to get my DNS all set up. Everything seems to be going > well except: I'm going to reiterate some things that other people have said because there is serious breakage here. > I can ping www.acatysmoof.com > I cannot ping acatysmoof.com - That's because there is no A record for it. Add this line anywhere in that file. acatysmoof.com. IN A 64.170.164.x The NS records are OK, contrary to another reply (at first glance they do look wrong), but they're not. The MX record is broken, it needs a . at the end of the hostname (unless there is a host called gouda.acatysmoof.com.acatysmoof.com, but I can see that there isn't). > The main reason I want to do this is because I would like to send mail to > this address, but right now no mail server can resolve it. :( That's not why the mail isn't working. You do not need your domain name to resolve for the domain to be deliverable. MX records suffice, and the A record is only used for mail delivery if there are _no_ MX records. Your problem is that the MX records point to a non-existent host, namely gouda.acatysmoof.com.acatysmoof.com. Ceri -- # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message