On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:03:16AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > hmmm... Good point. > I wonder then, how I'm supposed to create an MX / A record in dyndns.org. > They provide a form for it, and if I do > dig @ns1.mydyndns.org -MX tacocat.net > it comes up OK as janus.tacocat.net > but you say it doesn't. I wonder what the problem is. > > $ host -t mx tacocat.net > > This is a problem. You have no A *and* no MX records for your domain. > RoadRunner's smtp servers are rejecting any mails whose return address > has a domain that can't be contacted. If their server did accept the > mail, and then had to bounce it for some reason (eg the recipient is > over their quota), they would be stuck with an undeliverable bounce > message.
Here is my dig response, if it is worth anything... ; <<>> DiG 9.2.0 <<>> tacocat.net MX ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 47701 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 6 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;tacocat.net. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: tacocat.net. 86400 IN MX 10 janus.tacocat.net. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: tacocat.net. 86400 IN NS ns4.mydyndns.org. tacocat.net. 86400 IN NS ns5.mydyndns.org. tacocat.net. 86400 IN NS ns1.mydyndns.org. tacocat.net. 86400 IN NS ns2.mydyndns.org. tacocat.net. 86400 IN NS ns3.mydyndns.org. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: janus.tacocat.net. 60 IN A 24.208.241.254 ns4.mydyndns.org. 172795 IN A 212.100.224.176 ns5.mydyndns.org. 172795 IN A 66.37.215.46 ns1.mydyndns.org. 172795 IN A 66.37.215.45 ns2.mydyndns.org. 172795 IN A 216.7.11.132 ns3.mydyndns.org. 172795 IN A 64.71.191.27 ;; Query time: 43 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.4#53(192.168.0.4) ;; WHEN: Tue May 21 08: MX looks fine to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]