DNS Configuration Problem
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Wed Sep 8 20:13:31 UTC 1999
In article <7r6e9n$1pn$1 at eskinews.eskimo.com>,
Jonathon <jblake at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> The problem:
> Using nslookup, I get the following error message
> when looking up "stamp-coin.com"
>
> natal.stamp-coin.com can't find stamp-coin.com: non-existent
> host/domain.
nslookup gives the same message when a name doesn't exist or when the name
exists but there are no records of the type you requested. By default, a
query looks for A records, and you don't have any A records for
stamp-coin.com. You have:
>@ IN SOA natal.stamp-coin.com. jblake.natal.stamp-coin.com. ( 1999090704
>10800 3600 604800 86400 )
> IN NS natal.stamp-coin.com.
> IN NS ns1.savvis.net.
> IN TXT "Contact Jonathon Blake"
> IN TXT "Voice: +1-206-818-0820"
> IN TXT "E-Mail: jblake at stamp-coin.com "
> IN RP jblake.natal.stamp-coin.com. stamp-coin.com.
So you define SOA, NS, TXT, and RP records, but no A record for the domain.
If you had done "nslookup -type=txt stamp-coin.com" it would have worked.
> Looking up "209.102.31.164" results in the same error message.
> Looking up "natal.stamp-coin.com" gets the 'correct response'.
> [ Mail bounces, with an error message of:
> "Error 551: Read DNS and Bind." ]
To send mail to user at stamp-coin.com, you need either an MX record or an A
record for the name stamp-coin.com.
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