Mail Server not responding to domain requests, only IP

[Kevin Darcy]

SunandShield.org resolves to an A record just fine from the Internet. I'd be
looking for name-resolution problems on the clients. Can they resolve the
SunandShield.org name for telnet, ping, FTP, etc.? Maybe it's an
Outlook-specific problem, or maybe the nameserver they're pointed to is
misconfigured...


- Kevin

Aaron Queen wrote:

> I have a mail server setup on SunandShield.org and when I setup in Outlook
> the servers for POP3 to SunandShield.org and SMTP to SunandShield.org it
> won't connect. It could be because I am using ZoneEdit.com to host my
> primary and secondary DNS??? Maybe it is searching for that IP address
> instead of my own, 24.221.153.74 ... When I tell Outlook to use
> 24.221.153.74 to receive messages and send them it works fine. I setup a
> dyns.cx account for dns forwarding and it works using ssmail.dyns.net. It
> receives mail fine for admin at SunandShield.org from several different people.
>
> Is there a way to make mail servers work through SunandShield.org or do I
> have to have my own DNS Server? If so, how do I set one up and how do I tell
> NetworkSolutions (my registar) to use an IP address instead of a domain name
> for the DNS server?
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron