This is really an attempt to help Mandrake look more professional... I too have to get my own DNS act together; but my little home network is not as critical to being exemplary in this business climate as yours.
Here is the result of probing Mandrake's DNS from http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/sleuth/ Fixing the problems would result in Mandrake looking much more professional than its competition... Just trying to help, Pierre Check results for mandrakesoft.com Starting zone checks for mandrakesoft.com Checking zone name Checking existence of zone Checking NS records Checking nameserver authority and synchronization -> moseisley.mandrax.org. 17678 IN A 63.209.80.226 ### Error: moseisley.mandrax.org (63.209.80.226) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] Probing name server moseisley.mandrax.org (63.209.80.226) -> mandrakesoft.com. 3600 IN SOA moseisley.mandrax.org. hostmaster.mandrax.org. ( 2001102601 ; Serial 86400 ; Refresh 21600 ; Retry 3600000 ; Expire 3600 ) ; Minimum TTL -> mandrakesoft.com. 69224 IN NS dagobah.mandrax.org. -> mandrakesoft.com. 69224 IN NS moseisley.mandrax.org. -> dagobah.mandrax.org. 16793 IN A 63.209.80.227 ### Error: dagobah.mandrax.org (63.209.80.227) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] Probing name server dagobah.mandrax.org (63.209.80.227) Decided to use moseisley.mandrax.org (63.209.80.226) for zone check Checking whether moseisley.mandrax.org knows an A record for its own name Checking whether moseisley.mandrax.org is able to reverse-map its own IP address Checking connectivity with other nameservers Checking mapping of localhost ### Warning: moseisley.mandrax.org is unable to resolve localhost [see RFC1912:4.1 for details] Fetching zone data for mandrakesoft.com Parsing zone data Checking consistency of zone records mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN SOA moseisley.mandrax.org. hostmaster.mandrax.org. ( 2001102601 ; Serial 86400 ; Refresh 21600 ; Retry 3600000 ; Expire 3600 ) ; Minimum TTL Hostmaster e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> mandrax.org. 86400 IN MX 10 smtp.mandrax.org. -> smtp.mandrax.org. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.242 ### Error: smtp.mandrax.org (63.209.80.242) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] -> smtp.mandrax.org. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.243 ### Error: smtp.mandrax.org (63.209.80.243) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] -> smtp.mandrax.org. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.232 -> 232.80.209.63.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR smtp.mandrax.org. ### Warning: Expire time should be between 2 and 4 weeks [see RFC1912:2.2 for details] mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN NS moseisley.mandrax.org. mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN NS dagobah.mandrax.org. mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN MX 10 mail.mandrakesoft.com. -> mail.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 216.71.116.162 ### Error: Unable to resolve 162.116.71.216.in-addr.arpa.: SERVFAIL ### Error: mail.mandrakesoft.com (216.71.116.162) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 216.71.116.162 community.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 195.68.114.41 ### Error: community.mandrakesoft.com (195.68.114.41) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] cvs.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN CNAME dagobah.mandrax.org. dagobah.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.227 devel.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 209.77.56.164 ### Error: devel.mandrakesoft.com (209.77.56.164) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] drh.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.246 ### Error: drh.mandrakesoft.com (63.209.80.246) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] forum.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 208.38.9.171 -> 171.9.38.208.in-addr.arpa. 64103 IN PTR dsl-bev-208-38-9-171-edm.nucleus.com. -> dsl-bev-208-38-9-171-edm.nucleus.com. 33180 IN A 208.38.9.171 ### Warning: 208.38.9.171 for forum.mandrakesoft.com points back to dsl-bev-208-38-9-171-edm.nucleus.com [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] ftp.fr.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 195.68.114.34 -> 34.114.68.195.in-addr.arpa. 432 IN PTR office.mandrakesoft.com. -> office.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 195.68.114.34 ### Warning: 195.68.114.34 for ftp.fr.mandrakesoft.com points back to office.mandrakesoft.com [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] ftp.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN MX 10 mail.mandrakesoft.com. ftp.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 216.71.116.162 ftpserv.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.241 -> 241.80.209.63.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR ftpserv.mandrax.org. -> ftpserv.mandrax.org. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.241 ### Warning: 63.209.80.241 for ftpserv.mandrakesoft.com points back to ftpserv.mandrax.org [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] grw.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.246 gw-op.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 216.99.213.173 -> 173.213.99.216.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR 216-99-213-173.dsl.aracnet.com. -> 216-99-213-173.dsl.aracnet.com. 86400 IN A 216.99.213.173 ### Warning: 216.99.213.173 for gw-op.mandrakesoft.com points back to 216-99-213-173.dsl.aracnet.com [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] hardware.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN MX 10 mail.mandrakesoft.com. hardware.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 195.68.114.43 ### Error: hardware.mandrakesoft.com (195.68.114.43) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] intranet.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 195.68.114.36 ### Error: intranet.mandrakesoft.com (195.68.114.36) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] ipo.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.226 irc.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.238 -> 238.80.209.63.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR imandrake.imandrake.org.80.209.63.in-addr.arpa. ### Error: Invalid name of reverse domain imandrake.imandrake.org.80.209.63.in-addr.arpa [see RFC1035:3.5 for details] ### Error: irc.mandrakesoft.com maps to imandrake.imandrake.org.80.209.63.in-addr.arpa which doesn't point back [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] irc.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN MX 10 smtp.mandrakesoft.com. kalife.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN CNAME qa.mandrakesoft.com. -> qa.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 195.68.114.37 ### Error: qa.mandrakesoft.com (195.68.114.37) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] kenobi.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 195.68.114.37 lists.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.232 lists.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN MX 10 lists.mandrakesoft.com. localhost.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 127.0.0.1 mail.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 216.71.116.162 mail.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN MX 10 mail.mandrakesoft.com. mailhost2.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 194.9.222.5 ### Error: mailhost2.mandrakesoft.com (194.9.222.5) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] mailhost3.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 193.252.109.43 -> 43.109.252.193.in-addr.arpa. 172800 IN PTR ASte-Genev-Bois-101-2-1-43.abo.wanadoo.fr. -> ASte-Genev-Bois-101-2-1-43.abo.wanadoo.fr. 172800 IN A 193.252.109.43 ### Warning: 193.252.109.43 for mailhost3.mandrakesoft.com points back to ASte-Genev-Bois-101-2-1-43.abo.wanadoo.fr [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] mailhost4.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 209.6.173.194 ### Error: mailhost4.mandrakesoft.com (209.6.173.194) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN MX 10 mail.mandrakesoft.com. mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 216.71.84.35 -> 35.84.71.216.in-addr.arpa. 7227 IN PTR mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com. -> 35.84.71.216.in-addr.arpa. 7227 IN PTR nsd.mandrakesoft.com. -> 35.84.71.216.in-addr.arpa. 7227 IN PTR nsd.netnomics.com. ### Error: mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com maps to nsd.mandrakesoft.com which doesn't point back [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] ### Error: mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com maps to nsd.netnomics.com which doesn't point back [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] ml.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN CNAME ftpserv.mandrakesoft.com. moseisley.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.226 news-ext.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 195.68.114.40 ### Error: news-ext.mandrakesoft.com (195.68.114.40) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] news.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 195.68.114.38 ### Error: news.mandrakesoft.com (195.68.114.38) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] nirvana.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 195.68.114.40 office.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 195.68.114.34 people.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN MX 10 smtp.mandrakesoft.com. people.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.238 perso.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN MX 10 mail.mandrakesoft.com. perso.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 216.71.116.162 phpadm.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.246 phpgrw.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN MX 10 smtp.mandrakesoft.com. phpgrw.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.238 popssl.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN CNAME moseisley.mandrax.org. popssl2.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN CNAME dagobah.mandrax.org. ps.fr.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 195.68.114.39 ### Error: ps.fr.mandrakesoft.com (195.68.114.39) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] ps.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 195.68.114.41 qa.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 195.68.114.37 redirect.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.244 ### Error: redirect.mandrakesoft.com (63.209.80.244) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] rsync.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN CNAME ftpserv.mandrakesoft.com. secnews.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN CNAME office.mandrakesoft.com. smtp.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN MX 10 smtp.mandrakesoft.com. smtp.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.238 stanford.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 207.181.248.140 -> 140.248.181.207.in-addr.arpa. 21600 IN PTR dnai-207-181-248-140.cust.dnai.com. -> dnai-207-181-248-140.cust.dnai.com. 21600 IN A 207.181.248.140 ### Warning: 207.181.248.140 for stanford.mandrakesoft.com points back to dnai-207-181-248-140.cust.dnai.com [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] testforum.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN CNAME forum.mandrakesoft.com. tls.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN MX 10 tls.mandrakesoft.com. tls.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 195.68.114.40 tox.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 195.68.114.43 uk.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN MX 10 uk.mandrakesoft.com. -> uk.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 62.189.56.130 ### Error: uk.mandrakesoft.com (62.189.56.130) has no reverse record [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] uk.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 62.189.56.130 us.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 207.213.84.10 -> 10.84.213.207.in-addr.arpa. 6819 IN PTR firewall.graphic-systems.com. -> firewall.graphic-systems.com. 60670 IN A 209.67.50.203 ### Error: us.mandrakesoft.com maps to firewall.graphic-systems.com which doesn't point back [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] webmail.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN MX 10 smtp.mandrax.org. webmail.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.232 www.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN A 63.209.80.236 -> 236.80.209.63.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com.80.209.63.in-addr.arpa. ### Error: Invalid name of reverse domain mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com.80.209.63.in-addr.arpa [see RFC1035:3.5 for details] ### Error: www.mandrakesoft.com maps to mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com.80.209.63.in-addr.arpa which doesn't point back [see RFC1912:2.1 for details] www.mandrakesoft.com. 86400 IN MX 10 mail.mandrakesoft.com. Summary: 26 errors, 8 warnings
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