Confused dns/bind newbie

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Sun Jan 23 23:49:42 UTC 2000


> I am at my wits end, and I hope that some one can help me out.
> 
> I am using bind-8.2-6 (from RedHat 6) and a program called Webmin
> (http://www.webmin.com/webmin) to add DNS information. I have added 
> the following zone into my name server:
> 
> goatfest.com.	IN	SOA	ns1.moewes.com. cmoewes.moewes.com. (
> 			948664137
> 			10800
> 			3600
> 			432000
> 			38400 )
> goatfest.com.	IN	NS	ns1.moewes.com.
> www.goatfest.com.	IN	A	63.226.143.34

> goatfest.com.	IN	MX	10 mail.moewes.com

	"mail.moewes.com" is missing the final period which says
	the name is absolute.  Without the final period the current
	origin (goatfest.com) is appended.

	Mark

> goatfest.com.	IN	A	63.226.143.34
> 
> Whenever I do and nslookup for the mx record (or try and send email)
> I get the following results.
> 
> > set q=mx
> > goatfest.com
> Server:  www.goatfest.com
> Address:  63.226.143.34
> 
> goatfest.com	preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.moewes.com.goatfest.com
> goatfest.com	nameserver = ns1.moewes.com
> ns1.moewes.com	internet address = 63.226.143.33
> 
> and of course it can't resolve mail.moewes.com.goatfest.com (it should 
> be mail.moewes.com. I am at a complete loss for what the problem is. If
> anyone can point something out I would greatly appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Chris Moewes
> 
> 
> 
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Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc. / Internet Software Consortium
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
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