Clarity on MX entry

[Ian Bedson]

Hi Etienne,

I would recommend that you have a look at this report though . . .

http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=harrier.co.za

Your SOA record contains some very non-standard values, however these
are not anything to do with your original question. The report does try
some basic testing of your MX record and it has some comments that may
be of interest to you though.

For a second opinion, you can also use this report as well . . .

http://www.checkdns.org/checkdns.asp?domain=harrier.co.za&submit=%A0Chec
k%21%A0&detailed=1

This report also shows that there could be some problems with your mail
server though.

Regards,

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Etienne
Sent: Friday, 23 August 2002 5:50 PM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
Subject: Clarity on MX entry



Hi all!

The problem I have is that I can't recieve mail. I have set up a working
DNS in Debian (bind9) but I'm not sure whether the MX entry is correct.
I have looked at some examples and it seem OK. When I run the command
"mx domain.co.za" it returns, what seem to be, the right
response:

harrier.co.za           MX      10 harrier.harrier.co.za

I added a win2k machine to my domain (the log on and everything works
fine) and when I send mail via Outlook express, everything seems to be
in order. Next I want to send the user mail from another machine but
then the system admin return that the address does not exists. Any
clues?

Thanks a mil!!