Search Again: Re: How badly have I screwed up? From: Len Conrad Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2002 Time: 5:13:21 am >officemedic.net. 3600 A 12.39.138.249 >www.officemedic.net. 3600 A 12.39.138.249 >officemedic.net. 3600 NS ns1.officemedic.net. > >officemedic.net. 3600 NS ns2.officemedic.net. ns2 is not responding. >officemedic.net. 3600 MX 10 mail.officemedic.net. ... don't use CNAMEs for MX and NS hostnames, only canonical hostnames. >officemedic.net. 3600 MX 20 mail2.officemedic.net. you don't have an A record for mail2 I suggest the preceding two be changed to mx1.officemedic.net. and mx2.officemedic.net. then create names for pop, smtp, webmail, imap so you have functional hostnames for various mail functions. >bs1.officemedic.net. 3600 A 12.39.138.244 >ns2.officemedic.net. 3600 A 12.39.138.144 >mail.officemedic.net. 3600 A 12.39.138.244 >mail2.officemedic.net. 3600 A 12.39.138.244 >lists.officemedic.net. 3600 A 12.39.138.244 >ftp.officemedic.net. 3600 A 12.39.138.249 > > >An example of a virtual domain is officemedic.com: that isn't a virutal domain, is it's the officemedic.com zone. >officemedic.com. NS ns1.officemedic.net. > >officemedic.com. NS ns2.officemedic.net. > >officemedic.com. MX 10 >mail.officemedic.net. >officemedic.com. MX 20 >mail2.officemedic.net. >officemedic.com. A 12.39.138.249 > >www.officemedic.com. A 12.39.138.249 >lists.officemedic.com. A 12.39.138.244 >mail.officemedic.com. CNAME mail.officemedic.net. >ftp.officemedic.com. CNAME ftp.officemedic.net. > > >Question 1: How badly have I screwed this up? about typical. :))) >Question 2: What should the reverse domain(s) look like? hostname PTR hostname. >Question 3: Why would EIMS all of a sudden be telling me "The following >message could not be delivered to list@lists.officemedic.net because the >host lists.officemedic.net does not exist"? probably because EIMS is too dumb to resolve YOUR ERROR of a CNAME into the (exising A record): mgw1# dig lists.officemedic.net ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> lists.officemedic.net ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; lists.officemedic.net, type = A, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: lists.officemedic.net. 1H IN CNAME ns1.officemedic.net. ns1.officemedic.net. 1H IN A 12.39.138.244 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: officemedic.net. 1H IN NS ns2.officemedic.net. officemedic.net. 1H IN NS ns1.officemedic.net. I suggest in your virgin state of newness that you replace all CNAMEs with A records. Len

Messages In This Thread: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 1, 2002 at 2:44:34 am Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Len Conrad on Jan 1, 2002 at 5:13:21 am Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 3, 2002 at 10:40:49 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 4, 2002 at 2:49:13 am Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 4, 2002 at 3:10:08 am Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 4, 2002 at 9:07:55 am Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 4, 2002 at 3:10:28 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Len Conrad on Jan 4, 2002 at 3:27:21 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 4, 2002 at 4:40:29 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Len Conrad on Jan 4, 2002 at 4:53:37 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 4, 2002 at 6:07:41 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Len Conrad on Jan 4, 2002 at 6:32:54 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 4, 2002 at 7:24:33 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 4, 2002 at 7:27:58 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 4, 2002 at 7:29:49 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 4, 2002 at 9:33:03 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 4, 2002 at 9:36:40 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Len Conrad on Jan 4, 2002 at 9:44:07 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 4, 2002 at 10:29:51 pm Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Len Conrad on Jan 5, 2002 at 4:17:19 am Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 5, 2002 at 6:32:21 am Re: How badly have I screwed up? by Don Morris on Jan 5, 2002 at 11:08:01 pm