MX Record Issue
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Thu Nov 4 18:55:40 UTC 2004
John <ctcmptrdr at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Currently the company hosting our DNS has it configured something like the
> following (I can't do a zone xfer and I'm trying to get a copy of it. This
> may contain typos but I'm just attempting to show the records contained in
> DNS currently) -
> @ 86400 IN SOA ns.company.com.
> root.company.com. (
> 3000
> 10800
> 604800
> 86400
> )
> IN NS ns.company.com.
> IN NS ns2.company.com.
> IN NS ns3.company.com.
> IN NS ns4.company.com.
> mail.company.com. IN A 123.123.123.123
> www.company.com. IN A 234.234.234.234
> company.com. IN MX 10 mail.company.com.
> Our mail addresses are username at mail.company.com. I'm not sure why, it was
> setup before I arrived. This goes back years. We're now having a problem
> with a particular company where they cannot send email to us because there
> isn't an MX record for the 'sub-domain' mail.company.com. They are running
> an SMTP server from Tumbleweed.com, and they are using RDNS lookups to cut
> down on SPAM. Our Internet provider for some reason doesn't have any PTR's
> defined, I'm guessing because no one here asked them to. (I've only been
> here < 2 months).
> I've modified our mail server so that each user has an aliased email address
> of username at company.com. If that email address is used, then the company
> above doesn't have a problem. The error that they are getting from their
> tumbleweed software, which apparently started rejecting sending mail to us
> recently (~ 2wks ago), is that it can't find the MX record. I'm thinking
> that they changed something, but I've been told they haven't.
> So, to fix this on our end, I believe I need to have the DNS hosting company
> (despite protests from their support staff that it's definately not req'd)
> add another MX record something like this -
> mail.company.com. IN MX 10 mail.company.com.
Yes. And remind your dns-hostinmg company that it's not their task
to protest, they should do what you tell them ( if you are correct)
> And I need to contact our ISP, and have them add a PTR record for our mail
> server.
Should have been done long tiem ago. Every address you publish with
an 'A' record should have exactly one PTR record.
> I'm going to be adding a 2nd mail server in the next couple of months, so at
> that point, I'd have (2) more MX records and an additional A record added,
> with a lower priority pointing (100) to that server.
Correct
> Am I missing something obvious (outside of typo's that I may have made in
> the above example)? Is the additional MX record required?
Yes, it's what makes your service redundant ( as far as Internet delivery needs)
> Thanks.
> John
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Peter Håkanson
IPSec Sverige ( At Gothenburg Riverside )
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