Clarity on MX entry
David Botham
dns at botham.net
Fri Aug 23 16:26:33 UTC 2002
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> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]
> On Behalf Of Etienne
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 5:50 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Clarity on MX entry
>
>
> Hi all!
>
> The problem I have is that I can't recieve mail. I have set up a
> working DNS in Debian (bind9) but I'm not sure whether the MX entry
> is correct. I have looked at some examples and it seem OK. When I
> run the command "mx domain.co.za" it returns, what seem to be, the
> right
> response:
>
> harrier.co.za MX 10 harrier.harrier.co.za
What is the real domain? The above does not make any sense. You
perform an MX query for domain.co.za and get a record back for
harrier.co.za. You are either really bad at hiding information that
shouldn't be hidden in the first place, or, you've got much bigger
problems than mx records.
Dave...
>
> I added a win2k machine to my domain (the log on and everything
> works fine) and when I send mail via Outlook express, everything
> seems to be in order. Next I want to send the user mail from
> another machine but then the system admin return that the address
> does not exists. Any clues?
>
> Thanks a mil!!
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