domain twice

[Dawn Connelly]

You need to have a dot at the end of the fully qualified domain name. It
needs to look like this:
mysld.tld. IN MX 5 spamfilter.mysld.tld.
mysld.tld. IN MX 10 mail.mysld.tld.
notice the <.> after tld. That tells named "Stop reading here". Without the
dot, named will keep reading the file until it finds either a dot or
something else it recognizes as a terminator.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Aron Bhand <not at for.us> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I know, this is a silly question. But I have to be certain because
> a number of people are involved.
>
> ===
> $ nslookup
>  > set q=mx
>  > MYSLD.TLD
> Server:         192.168.0.1
> Address:        192.168.0.1#53
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> MYSLD.TLD  mail exchanger = 5 \
>    spamfilter.MYSLD.TLD.MYSLD-TLD.ch.
> MYSLD.TLD  mail exchanger = 10 \
>    mail.MYSLD.TLD.MYSLD-TLD.
>
> Authoritative answers can be found from:
> ===
>
> The problem is that the MYSLD.TLD pattern repeats, mail to
> users at MYSLD.TLD get rejected due to this.
>
> My quesion is, whether the problem is just a missing "dot" in MX?
>    IN MX 5         spamfilter.MYSLD.TLD
>                                        ^dot here
>    IN MX 10        mail.MYSLD.TLD
>                                  ^and here
> mail              IN A    IP-ADDRESS
> spamfilter        IN A    IP-ADDRESS
>
> And also I'm curious, why there is nothing after the line "Authoritative
> answers can be found from:".
>
> Aron
>
>