BIND9 and probleme receiving pop emails

[Barry Margolin]

In article <fn76u9$mn0$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "stephane lepain" <penguindeb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> I have just installed a local DNS Server. Everything works fine but
> now I cannot receive pop mail anymore from my ISP. I guessed that was
> due to my DNS server but I cannot fixe the problem. I have enclosed
> below my DNS configuration files. The only I have done is a forwarder
> as I have attached to my network a router. I did try a forwarder with
> my ISP's DNS but that didnt work at all.

You shouldn't need either forwarder.  The router should let you talk 
directly to public DNS servers.

> Any help I could get here is very much appreciated because I am really
> stuck. Finally, I have another email account that works fine on the
> same network. That account is not from my ISP but it is a Mac.com
> account. It is a pop mail account but to get my emails, i use
> mail.mac.com and not pop.mac.com. Is it why that one is working and
> not the one from my isps which uses pop.orange.fr ?? Plus, my google
> account which uses pop.google.com doesn't work anymore as well.

There's nothing special about names pop.* versus mail.*, they're 
arbitrary names.

What happens when you do "dig pop.orange.fr"?

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