Clarity on MX entry

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Sat Aug 24 08:10:13 UTC 2002


Etienne <etienne at radioretail.co.za> wrote:

> Hi all!

> The problem I have is that I can't recieve mail. I have set up a
> working DNS in Debian (bind9) but I'm not sure whether the MX entry is
> correct. I have looked at some examples and it seem OK. When I run the
> command "mx domain.co.za" it returns, what seem to be, the right
> response:

> harrier.co.za           MX      10 harrier.harrier.co.za

> I added a win2k machine to my domain (the log on and everything works
> fine) and when I send mail via Outlook express, everything seems to be
> in order. Next I want to send the user mail from another machine but
> then the system admin return that the address does not exists. Any
> clues?

> Thanks a mil!!

You are spitting out answers with TTL=0 which will prevent a lot of usefullness.

This applies to MX as well as soa and ns for "harrier.co.za."




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