Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 10:15:06 +0100 From: Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk> To: Alex as Root <root@gouda.acatysmoof.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS reverse lookup issues Message-ID: <20010522101506.A359@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200105220617.f4M6HgC51615@gouda.acatysmoof.com>; from root@gouda.acatysmoof.com on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:17:42PM -0700 References: <200105220617.f4M6HgC51615@gouda.acatysmoof.com>
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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
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