Need help .....

[Nicola Canepa]

Did you try to resolve the MX?

dig -t MX theirdomain.nl

It should answer with the name, but NOT with the IP: the problem is te
definition of mail.theirdomain.nl, which is missing the "." at the end.
The right definition is:

[...]

www                   IN      A           A.A.A.50
theirdomain.nl.        IN      A           A.A.A.54
mail   IN      CNAME       theirdomain.nl.


[...]

Nicola

peter.marshall at caris.com ha scritto:

>I have a dns server (rh9, running bind).
>
>All it currently does is serve my domain, and if it can not find what
>it is looking for it then forwareds to my providers dns.  One of our
>partners would like mail from us to go directly to their mailserver
>instead of first passing through their providers.  I am not 100% sure
>how to do this as my attempt made it so no mail gets there and we can
>no longer go to their website.  He is my forwared and revers files for
>their site (names and ip's changed ...).  COuls someone tell me what I
>am doing wrong ?
>
>Thanks,
>P
>
>; This is a master zone file for theirdomain.nl
>$ttl 38400
>@       IN      SOA     argon.mydomain.com. hostmaster.mydomain.com. (
>                        991273041
>                        10800
>                        3600
>                        432000
>                        38400 )
>; Define the name servers, MX reoord and A record for this domain
>@               IN      NS      argon.mydomain.com.
>@               IN      NS      krypton.mydomain.com.
>@               IN      MX      10 mail.theirdomain.nl.
>@               IN      A       A.A.A.50
>;
>; Define a localhost lookup
>localhost       IN      A       127.0.0.1
>;
>www                   IN      A           A.A.A.50
>theirdomain.nl        IN      A           A.A.A.54
>mail.theirdomain.nl   IN      CNAME       theirdomain.nl
>;
>
>And here is the reverse one.
>; This is a master zone file for A.A.A
>$ttl 38400
>@       IN      SOA     argon.mydomain.com. hostmaster.mydomain.com. (
>                        991272575
>                        10800
>                        3600
>                        432000
>                        38400 )
>; Define the name servers this reverse domain
>@               IN      NS      argon.mydomain.com.
>@               IN      NS      krypton.mydoamin.com.
>54              IN      PTR     theirdomain.nl.
>;
>50              IN      PTR     www.theirdomain.nl.
>54              IN      PTR     mail.theirdomain.nl.
>;
>
>
>  
>


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