MX Record Problem

[Danny Mayer]

Among other things your applications appears to be trying to look up
AAAA records which BIND 4 is most unlikely to support.  AAAA records
are only useful for systems running IPv6. It's also not finding an MX
record for the domain.

Why don't you post the configuration file and the zone file for
benefit-systems.com since you are using a private address space.

         Danny
At 06:28 PM 4/13/02, Dan Bent wrote:
>I think I'm running bind v 4.9.7 on HP-UX 11.0. I'm trying to set up a
>mailserver on a different host (I was running sendmail and DNS servers on
>the same machine). The sendmail server has problems with addresses in my
>domain, "benefit-systems.com". I've pasted some relevant diagnostics below.
>I need to figure out how to get the appropriate MX and domain records built,
>so I can get the mailserver going.
>Thanks in advance for any help. Let me know if more/other info would be
>helpful.
>
># echo '/mx benefit-systems.com' |sendmail -bt -d8.8
>
>Produces:
>
>;; res_querydomain(helen.benefit-systems.com, <Nil>, 1, 28)
>;; res_query(helen.benefit-systems.com, 1, 28)
>;; res_mkquery(0, helen.benefit-systems.com, 1, 28)
>;; res_send()
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56078
>;; flags: rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>;;      helen.benefit-systems.com, type = AAAA, class = IN
>;; Querying server (# 1) address = 10.0.1.1
>;; got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56078
>;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>;;      helen.benefit-systems.com, type = AAAA, class = IN
>benefit-systems.com.    1D IN SOA       bsi-hp.benefit-systems.com.
>root.bsi-hp.benefit-systems.com. (
>                                         541             ; serial
>                                         3H              ; refresh
>                                         1H              ; retry
>                                         1W              ; expiry
>                                         1D )            ; minimum
>
>;; rcode = 0, ancount=0
>;; res_querydomain(helen.benefit-systems.com, benefit-systems.com, 1, 28)
>;; res_query(helen.benefit-systems.com.benefit-systems.com, 1, 28)
>;; res_mkquery(0, helen.benefit-systems.com.benefit-systems.com, 1, 28)
>;; res_send()
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56079
>;; flags: rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>;;      helen.benefit-systems.com.benefit-systems.com, type = AAAA, class =
>IN
>;; Querying server (# 1) address = 10.0.1.1
>;; got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 56079
>;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>;;      helen.benefit-systems.com.benefit-systems.com, type = AAAA, class =
>IN
>benefit-systems.com.    1D IN SOA       bsi-hp.benefit-systems.com.
>root.bsi-hp.benefit-systems.com. (
>                                         541             ; serial
>                                         3H              ; refresh
>                                         1H              ; retry
>                                         1W              ; expiry
>                                         1D )            ; minimum
>
>;; rcode = 3, ancount=0
>ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
>Enter <ruleset> <address>
> > getmxrr(benefit-systems.com, droplocalhost=0)
>;; res_querydomain(benefit-systems.com, <Nil>, 1, 15)
>;; res_query(benefit-systems.com, 1, 15)
>;; res_mkquery(0, benefit-systems.com, 1, 15)
>;; res_send()
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56080
>;; flags: rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>;;      benefit-systems.com, type = MX, class = IN
>;; Querying server (# 1) address = 10.0.1.1
>;; got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56080
>;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>;;      benefit-systems.com, type = MX, class = IN
>benefit-systems.com.    1D IN SOA       bsi-hp.benefit-systems.com.
>root.bsi-hp.benefit-systems.com. (
>                                         541             ; serial
>                                         3H              ; refresh
>                                         1H              ; retry
>                                         1W              ; expiry
>                                         1D )            ; minimum
>
>;; rcode = 0, ancount=0
>;; res_querydomain(benefit-systems.com, benefit-systems.com, 1, 15)
>;; res_query(benefit-systems.com.benefit-systems.com, 1, 15)
>;; res_mkquery(0, benefit-systems.com.benefit-systems.com, 1, 15)
>;; res_send()
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56081
>;; flags: rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>;;      benefit-systems.com.benefit-systems.com, type = MX, class = IN
>;; Querying server (# 1) address = 10.0.1.1
>;; got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 56081
>;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>;;      benefit-systems.com.benefit-systems.com, type = MX, class = IN
>benefit-systems.com.    1D IN SOA       bsi-hp.benefit-systems.com.
>root.bsi-hp.benefit-systems.com. (
>                                         541             ; serial
>                                         3H              ; refresh
>                                         1H              ; retry
>                                         1W              ; expiry
>                                         1D )            ; minimum