Confused dns/bind newbie
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Sun Jan 23 23:49:42 UTC 2000
> I am at my wits end, and I hope that some one can help me out.
>
> I am using bind-8.2-6 (from RedHat 6) and a program called Webmin
> (http://www.webmin.com/webmin) to add DNS information. I have added
> the following zone into my name server:
>
> goatfest.com. IN SOA ns1.moewes.com. cmoewes.moewes.com. (
> 948664137
> 10800
> 3600
> 432000
> 38400 )
> goatfest.com. IN NS ns1.moewes.com.
> www.goatfest.com. IN A 63.226.143.34
> goatfest.com. IN MX 10 mail.moewes.com
"mail.moewes.com" is missing the final period which says
the name is absolute. Without the final period the current
origin (goatfest.com) is appended.
Mark
> goatfest.com. IN A 63.226.143.34
>
> Whenever I do and nslookup for the mx record (or try and send email)
> I get the following results.
>
> > set q=mx
> > goatfest.com
> Server: www.goatfest.com
> Address: 63.226.143.34
>
> goatfest.com preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.moewes.com.goatfest.com
> goatfest.com nameserver = ns1.moewes.com
> ns1.moewes.com internet address = 63.226.143.33
>
> and of course it can't resolve mail.moewes.com.goatfest.com (it should
> be mail.moewes.com. I am at a complete loss for what the problem is. If
> anyone can point something out I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Chris Moewes
>
>
>
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Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc. / Internet Software Consortium
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
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