Search Again: Re: :Lame Name server From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, October 10, 2002 Time: 12:16:00 pm Your backup server, dns12.dion.ne.jp, responds non-authoritatively, meaning it doesn't know anything about the zone. This is a problem that you should resolve - whoever administers that server should configure it as a slave for joyworld.com, using your server as the zone master. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy At 12:37 PM +0900 10/10/02, David Campbell wrote: >Thanks Chris, >I think I have got it. If understand you correctly I really don't >have anything to to worry about. Mail works fine, people are able to >access our site and there don't seem to be any secruity issues. >David >> >> >>OK, let's talk about the other two problems. It appears that >>neither of the servers for joyworld.com have an authoritative >>version of the zone. Are you even able to get mail? Wait, don't >>answer that... ;-) >> >>I didn't find any MX records for joyworld.com (as implied by the >>previous paragraph), but in general, any name used in the data >>portion of an MX record should resolve to an IP address (i.e. it >>should have an A record), and that IP address should have exactly >>one PTR record, and that PTR record should point back to the name >>used in the MX record. Get all that? > > >--

Messages In This Thread: :Lame Name server by David Campbell on Oct 9, 2002 at 6:43:24 pm Re: :Lame Name server by Men & Mice Support on Oct 9, 2002 at 8:18:14 pm Re: :Lame Name server by Len Conrad on Oct 9, 2002 at 8:27:20 pm Re: :Lame Name server by David Campbell on Oct 9, 2002 at 8:36:37 pm Re: :Lame Name server by Len Conrad on Oct 9, 2002 at 8:47:32 pm Re: :Lame Name server by Men & Mice Support on Oct 10, 2002 at 12:16:00 pm Re: :Lame Name server by David Campbell on Oct 10, 2002 at 8:57:45 pm