what's wrong with this?

[Joe Kattner]

You've got a few problems,

you're missing a period in the all you're records, including the mx record,
causing the domain to be appended which is probably not what you want:

bash-2.03# dig kotyk.net mx
; <<>> DiG 9.2.0rc8 <<>> kotyk.net mx
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33707
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;kotyk.net.                     IN      MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
kotyk.net.              259200  IN      MX      10 mail.kotyk.net.kotyk.net.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
kotyk.net.              259200  IN      NS      24.237.6.176.kotyk.net.

;; Query time: 653 msec
;; SERVER: 24.48.58.222#53(24.48.58.222)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct 31 11:19:55 2001
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 85

You need to fix your ns record also, add an a record for the name server,
and point the ns record to that. You'll also want to change the mname field
to that name also, instead of just the domain name;

bash-2.03# dig kotyk.net ns
; <<>> DiG 9.2.0rc8 <<>> kotyk.net ns
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16173
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;kotyk.net.                     IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
kotyk.net.              259035  IN      NS      24.237.6.176.kotyk.net.

;; Query time: 4 msec
;; SERVER: 24.48.58.222#53(24.48.58.222)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct 31 11:22:39 2001
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 54

Also, the reverse entry points to a different domain, which may cause mail
sent from you to be rejected as spam in some cases.

bash-2.03# dig -x 24.237.4.70 
; <<>> DiG 9.2.0rc8 <<>> -x 24.237.4.70
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54980
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;70.4.237.24.in-addr.arpa.      IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
70.4.237.24.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN      PTR
cable-70-4-237-24.anchorageak.net.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
4.237.24.in-addr.arpa.  86400   IN      NS      ns1.gci.net.
4.237.24.in-addr.arpa.  86400   IN      NS      ns2.gci.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.gci.net.            3439    IN      A       208.138.130.16
ns2.gci.net.            3439    IN      A       206.96.62.16

;; Query time: 128 msec
;; SERVER: 24.48.58.222#53(24.48.58.222)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct 31 11:29:29 2001
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 161


--Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Wilbur [mailto:ultramafic1 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 3:22 AM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: what's wrong with this?



This host keeps getting mail bounced with "cant find MX record for...". 
Can someone tell me what's wrong with it?

$TTL 3D
@ IN SOA kotyk.net. admin.weems.org. (
                        2001092718 ; serial
                        4H              ; refresh
                        2H              ; retry
                        2W              ; expire
                        1D )         ; minimum
                NS      24.237.6.176
                MX      10 mail.kotyk.net ; you'll receive mail here
                A       24.237.4.70  ; default address
www             A       24.237.4.70  ; www.kotyk.net
mail            A       24.237.4.70  ; mail.kotyk.net
chris           A       24.237.4.70  ; chris.kotyk.net



Thanks in advance....