Search Again: Re: How badly have I screwed up? From: Don Morris Date: Thursday, January 3, 2002 Time: 10:40:49 pm >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. I think that is fixed. >officemedic.net. 3600 MX 10 mail.officemedic.net. > >... don't use CNAMEs for MX and NS hostnames, only canonical hostnames. I don't understand your point. (Remember, I'm new at this.) I thought a CNAME *is* a canonical hostname? Anyway, I'm *not* using a CNAME here. >officemedic.net. 3600 MX 20 mail2.officemedic.net. > >you don't have an A record for mail2 I think I have fixed that as well. I only have one mail server. Is there any problem having both MX records point to the same machine, or should I do something different? >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. And those names/records would look like what? Perhaps pop.officemedic.net CNAME mx1.officemedic.net ?? >ns1.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 I take it these are okay? >>An example of a virtual domain is officemedic.com: > >that isn't a virutal domain, is it's the officemedic.com zone. Well, when I create a new domain in QDNS using the Domain Assistant it asks me if I want to create a Normal domain, a Virtual Domain or a Reverse Domain. I'm just using its terminology. Officemedic.com is based on the Master domain (again, QDNS term) 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. Sorry, I'm so new that I don't even know how to ask the question. What should the records look like for the -- I'm assuming -- 138.39.12.in-addr.arpa. domain? Exactly? I have 138.39.12.in-addr.arpa. 3600 NS ns1.officemedic.net. 138.39.12.in-addr.arpa. 3600 NS ns2.officemedic.net. 249.138.39.12.in-addr.arpa. PTR fitpchurch.org. 244.138.39.12.in-addr.arpa. PTR esafelist.com. 244.138.39.12.in-addr.arpa. PTR officemedic.net. 144.138.39.12.in-addr.arpa. PTR ns2.officemedic.net. 135.138.39.12.in-addr.arpa. PTR hl.officemedic.net. but I assume that this is incorrect, since not all of my other virtual domains...excuse me, zones...are appearing here. I'm having a problem where sending email through mail.officemedic.com, for example, results in an error returned to EIMS: "Response: 450 Client host rejected, cannot find your host name, [12.39.138.244]." >>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): Well, sure, but this just started happening. And then it stopped, but I don't know why. Anyway, where is _this_ exact error? What CNAME should I have entered as an A record? Type slowly using one-syllable words so I can understand. :-) >;; ANSWER SECTION: >lists.officemedic.net. 1H IN CNAME ns1.officemedic.net. Oh, this one! Well, my partner in stupidity changed this (and it's working now), but it originally *was* an A record (as shown above) when I started this thread. >I suggest in your virgin state of newness that you replace all CNAMEs with >A records. So instead of mail.officemedic.com. CNAME mail.officemedic.net. I should have used mail.officemedic.com. A 12.39.239.244 ?? -- Don Morris $10,000 Marketing Tip: <http://1deg.net/mtotd.html>

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