From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 2:43:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B260437B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 02:43:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 4AA9816B24; Tue, 22 May 2001 12:00:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from IBM-HIRXKN66F0W.Go2France.com [195.115.185.184] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A5DF26F00074; Tue, 22 May 2001 11:48:15 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010522114246.02deef88@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 11:44:06 +0200 To: Ceri From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: DNS reverse lookup issues Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010522101506.A359@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> References: <200105220617.f4M6HgC51615@gouda.acatysmoof.com> <200105220617.f4M6HgC51615@gouda.acatysmoof.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 o The server "ns1.acatysmoof.com." did not reply The server "ns1.acatysmoof.com." did not reply when it was queried for the name "acatysmoof.com.". This indicates that the server is not running, or it is currently unreachable. o Unable to resolve the host name "gouda.acatysmoof.com.acatysmoof.com." used in the MX record "ns1.acatysmoof.com." It was not possible to resolve the host name "gouda.acatysmoof.com.acatysmoof.com." which is used in the MX record for "ns1.acatysmoof.com." This indicates that a host with the name "gouda.acatysmoof.com.acatysmoof.com." does not exist. o Only one of your name servers has autoritative data for the zone. The server "ns.acatysmoof.com." is the only server that has authoritaive data for the zone. If this server becomes unavailable, your domain will become inacessible. o There are no MX records for the zone The zone contains no MX records for the zone itself. This will cause delivery problems for mail sent to any account of the form user@zone. Every zone for which mail delivery is desired should contain at least one MX record. o Unable to verify the hostmaster address "alex.acatysmoof.com." because no mail servers answered. It was not possible to verify the hostmaster address "alex.acatysmoof.com." because none of the mail servers that process mail for the domain answered. Warnings ---------------------------------------------------------------------- o Server name in the SOA record differs from server name in an NS record The name server with the IP address 64.170.164.211 is identified by the name "gouda.acatysmoof.com." in the SOA record but the NS record uses the name "ns.acatysmoof.com." for the host. o The Expire field in the SOA record contains an unusually high value The value 8640000 of the Expire field in the SOA record is unusually high. The value for this field should be within the range 86400 - 3600000. o A dot is possibly missing in the mail server name "gouda.acatysmoof.com.acatysmoof.com." in an MX record A part of the domain name appears more than once in the mail server name "gouda.acatysmoof.com.acatysmoof.com." in the MX record "ns1.acatysmoof.com.". There may be a missing dot in the host entry. o The zone contains no A record with the zone name There is no A record in the zone with the zone name "acatysmoof.com." http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.3 "NT3" for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message