mail server cannot be found...

Re: mail server cannot be found...

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At 3:22 PM -0800 1/13/2000, Higher Powered wrote:
>Hi all, I'm back at it again.
>
>I have a few questions, again...
>
>When I look up "a" records for domains in my dns, using dig, there seems to
>be nothing.
>
>Ex:
>foothillstrading.com
>michaeltyler.com
>
>When I look up "a" records that are still in my isp's dns, they look fine(or
>at least to me).
>ex:
>ezineadsource.com

If you want an A record for each of your domains, add one to each:
foothillstrading.com. A 208.1.125.162

>These domains have been working fine, however.
>MY ptr records are still messed up, I need to contact my isp. what do I
>tell them?

Tell them that you need to have reverse records, whether they are delegated to your servers or handled by their servers. Currently, they don't even have a record for the surrounding class C - if you have the full class C subnet routed to you, ask them to delegate it to you as well. Otherwise, I'd guess you'd probably prefer a classless delegation, which they should know how to create.

In case they don't, you can give them this URL: <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2317.html>.

It kinda bugs me that major ISP's like that don't know how important reverse records are, or simply wait to set up reverse records until their customers start complaining.

>Here's my problem now. I cannot send mail to my mail server- I have had
>mail problems ever since I set up QDNS, and have not been able to get things
>to work right. Now I have to get them working, but I don't know where the
>problem is. I know the secondary dns and mail servers are not up yet- but I
>wouldn't think this would be the problem. Since the mail never shows up at
>the mail server, I assume it's not the mail server. Also, the mail server
>gives me an error relating to not being able to find a dns record for
>foothillstrading.com.

Christopher Bort has done a good job of answering this already.
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