Resolving MX records

[Kevin Darcy]

Dean Clapper wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm having a problem resolving the MX record for one domain name.  I 
> tested several others and they worked.  This is the only domain name I 
> found a problem with.  I did a dig on another machine and it works. 
>   
> ***********didn't work machine 1*************
> dig vginc.net MX
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.5 <<>> vginc.net MX
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 48644
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;vginc.net.                     IN      MX
>
> ;; Query time: 252 msec
> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
> ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 13 13:19:30 2006
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 27
>
> *********worked machine 2***************
> dig vginc.net MX
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> vginc.net mx
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34401
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;vginc.net.                     IN      MX
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> vginc.net.              14400   IN      MX      0 vginc.net.
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> vginc.net.              14400   IN      NS      ns1.servermatrix.com.
> vginc.net.              14400   IN      NS      ns2.servermatrix.com.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> vginc.net.              14400   IN      A       69.93.189.34
>
> ;; Query time: 123 msec
> ;; SERVER: 198.213.6.1#53(198.213.6.1)
> ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 13 12:50:40 2006
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 111
>
>
> I'm using bind bind-9.2.5-1 on 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 #1 on machine 1.  I've been 
> having this problem for a couple days.  This came to pass because people 
> can not send emails to this domain.  I can ping it and do a dig on the 
> domain, but if I try to do a dig on the domain name's MX I don't get any 
> answers.  Any ideas?  
>   
The apex NS records for vginc.net are stale/incorrect: neither 
ns1.servermatrix.com nor ns2.servermatrix.com are answering for the 
vginc.net zone.

- Kevin