Search Again: Re: strangeness From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 Time: 2:53:46 pm At 5:34 PM -0500 3/30/04, Karl Schroll wrote: >Hi, I am testing QDNS 4.6.1, what an improvement for older versions. > >I am not an expert though, and wondered if one could answer a couple >of questions. Attached is a zone for stoweagle.com that we host. >Mail is hosted by another provider, pshift.com. My question: is >this zone configured right in regards to mail? pshift.com is >telling me to change the CNAME mail.stoweagle.com to >mail.pshift.com, but that doesn't sound right to me. > >Also, regarding this domain, why do some of the servers that I have >been doing lookups on resolve to root servers instead of our name >servers? For example, > >http://us.mirror.menandmice.com/cgi-bin/DoDig?host=ns1.greenmountainaccess.net&domain=yellow-turtle.com&type=A&recur=on > >any help appreciated. You'll see a root delegation if recursion is denied. In the example you gave, look at these flags from the result: ;; flags: qr rd; qr = query received rd = recursion desired ra = recursion available - not present Since there's no ra flag, the server queried is refusing recursion to the menandmice.com web server, and so it gives the closest result it has in cache. >Here's the zone as exported from QDNS: > >$TTL 86400 >@ 86400 IN SOA ns1.digitalfrontier.com. > hostmaster.digitalfrontier.com. 2004033007 28800 7200 > 604800 86400 >@ 3600 IN A 216.114.155.114 ; >@ 3600 IN NS ns2.digitalfrontier.com. ; >@ 3600 IN NS ns1.digitalfrontier.com. ; >@ 3600 IN MX 10 mail.pshift.com. ; >@ 3600 IN MX 30 pomail.pshift.com. ; >www 3600 IN CNAME @ ; >pop IN CNAME @ >smtp IN CNAME @ >mail IN CNAME @ Listen to the folks at pshift.com. They know whereof they speak, at least in this case. The "pop", "smtp", and "mail" aliases should point to the appropriate host(s) in the pshift.com domain. Since 216.114.155.114 isn't handling mail for this domain, you shouldn't point these aliases at it. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy

Messages In This Thread: strangeness by Karl Schroll on Mar 30, 2004 at 2:36:40 pm Re: strangeness by Len Conrad on Mar 30, 2004 at 2:40:57 pm Re: strangeness by Karl Schroll on Mar 30, 2004 at 2:43:26 pm Re: strangeness by Len Conrad on Mar 30, 2004 at 2:49:57 pm Re: strangeness by Men & Mice Support on Mar 30, 2004 at 2:53:46 pm Re: strangeness by Karl Schroll on Mar 30, 2004 at 2:56:46 pm Re: strangeness by Karl Schroll on Mar 30, 2004 at 2:59:46 pm Re: strangeness by Karl Schroll on Mar 31, 2004 at 8:36:01 am Re: strangeness by Men & Mice Support on Mar 31, 2004 at 8:39:10 am Re: strangeness by Karl Schroll on Mar 31, 2004 at 8:42:48 am Re: strangeness by Men & Mice Support on Mar 31, 2004 at 10:37:02 am Re: strangeness by Karl Schroll on Mar 31, 2004 at 10:47:15 am Re: strangeness by Men & Mice Support on Mar 31, 2004 at 10:52:17 am