Help re: MX record

[Pradiman_K_Pandita]

Hi,

Check up if you have a A record with your mail server. What I mean to say
over here is that it should have both a MX record and a Address record
too. Mostly it looks that you have not specified the address record for
your mail server. Also you need to see that these records are being
propogated to the outside world too. Alternatively you can send a mail
from some other domian like cyberspace.org by using the sendmail -v
me at mydomain.com and check to what host this gets resolved , you can use
this at cyberspace.org , you can get a free shell account over there too.

HTH,

-Pandita


On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 sabbah22 at my-deja.com wrote:

> In article <375483A9.E51760BD at cisco.com>,
>   Michael Voight <mvoight at cisco.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > sabbah22 at my-deja.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We have set up DNS using BIND (sort of a franken-config but thats
> > > another story) and we're having a problem getting the rest of the
> > > internet to able to send mail to our domain. (in a way..)
> > >
> > > >From the outside, I can send mail to "me at mail.domain.com", where
> > > mail.domain.com is specified in our DNS files and exists as a host,
> > > however I would rather be able to send mail to "me at domain.com"
> instead.
> > >
> > > Is this what the MX record does?  We have one of those so that must
> not
> > > be the problem.
> > >
> > > Is this possible?  It seems it *would* be with pretty much every
> other
> > > domain doing this, obviously.  I just can't figure out where to put
> it.
> >
> > Do you have an mx record for domain.com?
> > What does it point to?
> > Does that machine know it is supposed to accept mail for domain.com?
> > (It must be configured on some machines)
> >
> > What happens when this machine is sent mail?
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> 
> Well, for ourdomain.net, which is one of 5 files for 3 subdomains our
> DNS handles, the file contains one MX record as follows:
> 
> *      IN   MX   10    Mail
> 
> And then of course all the A records, like so...
> 
> doodah       IN    A     xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> 
> and so on...
> 
> So to be honest, I'm not sure where it points unless to the obvious, the
> machine named mail.ourdomain.net.
> 
> When mail is sent to the domain (user at ourdomain.net), the sending server
> barfs with "Host unknown".
> 
> Thanks again for any assistance.  We have someone else reading
> O'Reilly's DNS & BIND whose authors I see frequently posting here.   Is
> the answer in the book perhaps?
> 
> 
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