MX problem: loopback
mwhitset at phybertek.com
mwhitset at phybertek.com
Sat Apr 29 04:38:38 UTC 2000
Don't point your MX line to a CNAME...
-Mark Whitsett
Rainer Collet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am very new to DNS, so please can you help me with the following problem?
> Nameserver and mailserver runs on the same host. I have written this
> zonefile:
> --snip
> $ORIGIN xxx.com.
>
> @ 1D IN SOA @ nsmaster.xxx.com (
> 2000042800 ; serial
> 3H ; refresh
> 15M ; retry
> 1W ; expire
> 1D ) ; minimum
>
> 1D IN NS ns1.xxx.com.
> 1D IN NS ns2.xxx.com.
> 1D IN A 195.4.253.14
> 1D IN MX 1 baby
>
> baby 1D IN A 195.4.253.14
>
> ns1 1D IN CNAME baby
> ns2 1D IN CNAME baby
> mail 1D IN CNAME baby
> ftp 1D IN CNAME baby
> www 1D IN CNAME baby
> news 1D IN CNAME baby
> --snip
>
> and I allways get back this errormessage:
>
> 554 MX list fo xxx.com. points back to baby.xxx.com
> 553 xxx.xom. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
> 554 <user at xxx.com>... Local configuration error
>
> how can I solve this problem?
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Rainer
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