Why wont this MX record work properly?

[Stephen Carville]

On Thursday 24 February 2005 8:34 am, you wrote:
> Having some trouble with an MX entry.  Is this not a valid way to do MX
> records (in the domain.us zone file)?
>
> arete.domain.us   in  mx  10  mul8.domain.us
> mul8.domain.us   in  a  xx.xx.xx.xx
>
>
> If we send emails to user at arete.domain.us from certain mail servers
> (Yahoo and Hotmail online accts) it works.  If we send from other email
> accounts it doesnt work.  There is no actual zone file for
> arete.domain.us, it is just a "domain" to send email to.

My guess is the domain does not exist:

$ dig arete.domain.us mx

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> arete.domain.us mx
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 29827
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;arete.domain.us.               IN      MX

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
us.                     10800   IN      SOA     a.gtld.biz. 
hostmaster.gtld.biz. 2002354098 900 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 2098 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Feb 24 10:58:51 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 90

> Suggestions?
>
> Tim M.

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Stephen Carville
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