mail problem

[Barry Margolin]

In article <79f32b15.252e6920 at aol.com>,  <S0LARlSTEK at aol.com> wrote:
>Is this a correct configuratin for a zone file (.db file) if the name of my 
>mail server is web60.websgt.net.
>
>;
>; db.gtreseller.net
>; $Id$
>;
>@  IN  SOA  web60.websgt.net. webmaster.websgt.net. (
>                        1999100702      ; serial - yyyymmddhh
>                        28800           ; refresh after 8 hours
>                        3600            ; retry after 1 hour
>                        604800          ; expire after 1 week
>                        86400 )         ; minimum TTL - 1 day
>
>; Name Servers
>                IN  NS  ns1.websgt.net.
>                IN  NS  ns2.jtinternet.com.
>
>;
>gtreseller.net.          IN  MX          10 web60.websgt.net.
>localhost                IN  A           127.0.0.1
>gtreseller.net.          IN  A           216.32.58.62
>www.gtreseller.net.      IN  A           216.32.58.62
>
>Could the fact that my SOA records are not the same as my primary DNS be a 
>problem, or cause problems with email.  

No.  The only thing that cares about the hostname in the SOA record is
dynamic update.

>					 I am having problems sending mail to 
>yahoo.com, earthlink.net and many other places.  Although can send to UIA.NET 
>and AOL.COM

Is your outgoing mail going from www.gtreseller.net?  The problem may be
that there's no reverse DNS entry for 216.32.58.62.  Many mail servers now
refuse to accept mail from a remote address if they can't resolve its
address to a hostname.  You need to get Exodus to add a PTR record for this
address, or if this is a part of a range of addresses they've assigned to
you they could delegate reverse DNS to you (perhaps using RFC 2317 if you
don't have the entire class C).

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
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