Can't get email
Jim Reid
jim at rfc1035.com
Thu Jan 27 19:06:30 UTC 2000
>>>>> "Chris" == cmoewes <cmoewes at moewes.com> writes:
Chris> I have a mail server names mail.moewes.com which is listed
Chris> as the mx record for goatfest.com. However whenever I try
Chris> to send email to it from outside (i.e. yahoo mail of
Chris> hotbot) I get an error message that says,
Chris> Message from yahoo.com. Unable to deliver message to the
Chris> following address(es).
Chris> <chris at goatfest.com>: Sorry, I couldn't find a mail
Chris> exchanger or IP address. (#5.4.4)
You are mistaken. The MX record for goatfest.com points at
mail.moewes.com.goatfest.com. This name does not exist in the
DNS. That means there's nowhere for the rest of the world to send
their mail for goatfest.com. Hence the bounced mail...
You probably forgot a trailing dot on the MX record in goatfest.com's
zone file, which meant the current domain - goatfest.com - was
appended to that unterminated name when the zone was loaded.
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