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>OK. I've added an A record lists.websurfhawaii.com for my List Server. I
Re: can''t reach my list server
From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Thursday, June 17, 1999
Time: 6:15:00 pm
>already have another A record ns1.websurfhawaii.com for the same IP address.
>This should be alright?
This is fine. As Steve Linford pointed out, it would also have worked with
an MX record.
>Alas, it's been about 8 hours since I changed my records and still the
>emails in my EIMS outbox just sit there.
Sounds to me like the mail server hasn't rechecked the DNS records. That's
sort of a guess, though.
The solution would be to reboot the mail server (the whole machine, not
just the software).
>I can't believe I screwed this up so bad. My list server and email server
>have always been such a non-issue. My hand's off time has made this a harsh
>learning experience.
>
>>>From Donovan Watts, received 16/6/99, 9:30 am +0100 (GMT):
>>>> A few days ago I changed my name server to a different IP address. I
>>>> notified my ISP who is secondary. I also changed the host form with
>>>> Internic.
>>>>
>>>> All seems well except for one thing. Emails to my list server machine,
>>>> lists.websurfhawaii.com, are stacking up in the outgoing mail queues in
>>>> EIMS.
>>>
>>>lists.websurfhawaii.com doesn't have an MX record.
>>
>> Actually, it would also work with an A record. Unfortunately, there is only
>> a CNAME record. Mail servers often don't like CNAME records. Every mail
>> server (including a list server, if it listens for SMTP traffic) should
>> have an A record, and there should be a PTR record that resolves back to
>> that name.
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