Mail Exchange Problem

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Oct 18 15:27:51 UTC 1999


In article <7ubiib$174k$1 at earth.superlink.net>,
Heeseung Kang <hkang at superlink.net> wrote:
>Recently I setup DNS server on my domain by using LINUX.
>This machine also has FTP, MAIL service.
>This machine's host name is 'DNS'.
>The following is my Zone.db file
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--------------
>@    IN SOA dns.my-domain-name.com. hostmaster.my-domain-name.com.  (
>                                      199910161  ; Serial
>                                      28800      ; Refresh
>                                      7200       ; Retry
>                                      604800     ; Expire
>                                      86400 )    ; Minimum
>
>@    NS     dns.my-domain-name.com.
>@    NS     dns2.my-domain-name.com.
>
>@    MX 10  mail.my-domain-name.com.

It's probably not causing your problem, but MX records should not point to
CNAME records.  So that should be:

@     MX 10  dns.my-domain-name.com.

>localhost               A       127.0.0.1
>dns                    A       dns-ip-address
>dns2                  A       dns2-ip-address
>www                     A       web-server-ip-address
>
>mail            CNAME   dns
>ftp             CNAME   dns



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