I seemed to have go it to work. Thanx everyone. I just re wrote the zone
file and I realised my mistake. I had got mixed up and put he same IP for
the A and the PTR record.
What is authoritative data? I was told I had problems? What are they? I will
re print the revised DNS Zone file.
; Zone file for ultraspeed.co.uk. sachin rules!!!
; y0, welcome to my zone file. Took forever to work
; Created by Sachin
@ IN SOA ns1.ultraspeed.co.uk. mrscusie.smxtech.net. (
1997113090
28800
7200
3600000
86400 )
smxtech.net. IN NS ns1.ultraspeed.net.
smxtech.net. IN A 206.161.124.10
ns1 IN A 206.161.124.3
ns2 IN A 206.161.124.4
mrscusie IN A 205.252.89.87
localhost.smxtech.net. IN A 127.0.0.1
root IN A 206.161.124.10
smxtech.net. IN MX 5 root.smxtech.net.
IN MX 10 mail.smxtech.net
mail IN A 205.252.89.87
10.124.161.206.in-addr.arpa.,type = PTR
host = mail.smxtech.net
mail IN CNAME root.smxtech.net.
www IN CNAME root.smxtech.net.
ftp IN CNAME root.smxtech.net.
irc IN CNAME root.smxtech.net.
* IN CNAME root.smxtech.net.
CAN anyone see any errors in this one?
Mr Sachin Duggal
T/A SMX Technologies
Your humble servant in the protection of the Earth and the Rigths of the
Child
United Nations Environment Programme & ICCJB
A few quick comments on things that need fixing:
1) The server ns1.ultraspeed.net is listed as being authoritative for the
domain smxtech.net. However, it does not contain authoritative date for it.
2) Ditto for ns2.ultraspeed.net
Unless you fix this lame delegation problem, it will never be possible for
people elsewhere in the world to send email to smxtech.net. Note: fixing
lame delegation often involves changes at the next level up in the domain
structure. In this case, at ".net".
3) The zone file you give below does not list ns2.ultraspeed.net at all
(which would help explain some of the lame delegation). From RFC1912
Section #2.8:
# You are required to have at least two nameservers
# for every domain, though more is preferred.
http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/rfc/rfc1912.html
For further info, see RFC2182 (Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS
Servers):
http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/rfc/rfc2182.html
4) In the zone file there are A records for ns1.smxtech.net and
nms2.smxtech.net. These two hosts are running DNS, and they do answer
queries on the smxtech.net domain. However, the answers are not
authoritative. What are these servers intended to accomplish?
5) In the zone file, the IP address 206.161.124.10 has duplicate A records
("root" & "mail"). These hostnames are also listed in the MX records. The
result is that there is only one mail delivery address, and not the two
which were probably intended.
6) "mail" is a CNAME for "root". This is a problem if you wish to use
"mail" in an MX record. Again, see RFC1912.
Hope this is of some help.
Mark Symons
Ipswitch
Augusta GA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sachin Duggal
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 3:34 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [IMail Forum]
>
>
> HELP HELP
>
> I have set up our mail servers using IMAIL 5.0
> Here is my problem.
> We have 10 different ips and domains. I have setup a virtual host assigned
> to an IP. We have two hosts, one is the actual server and the other is a
> virtual host with an IP.
>
> Now when I send an email from my ISP account, independent of the
> mail server
> I am setting up. The mail goes through without an error, however, when I
> come to check the mail, there is nothing there. That is for the virtual
> host. However, if I send a mail to the server, the user receives it.
>
> Therefore, the virtual host's users cannot receive mail but can
> send it and
> the server's users can do both. How can I fix this as we need to
> get this up
> and runnig soon.
>
> I have done the following to the smxtech.net.db
> Here is a copy of the DB file.
> ; Zone file for smxtech.net
> ; y0, this has taken me long...finally done though!
> ; Created by Sachin D
> @ IN SOA ns1.ultraspeed.net. mrscusie.smxtech.net. (
> 1997113090
> 28800
> 7200
> 3600000
> 86400 )
>
> smxtech.net. IN NS ns1.ultraspeed.net.
> smxtech.net. IN A 206.161.124.10
> ns1 IN A 206.161.124.3
> ns2 IN A 206.161.124.4
> mrscusie IN A 205.252.89.87
> localhost.smxtech.net. IN A 127.0.0.1
>
> root IN A 206.161.124.10
>
> smxtech.net.
> IN MX 5 root.smxtech.net.
> IN MX 10 mail.smxtech.net
> mail IN A 206.161.124.10
>
> 10.124.161.206.in-addr.arpa.,type = PTR
> host = mail.smxtech.net
>
> mail IN CNAME root.smxtech.net.
> www IN CNAME root.smxtech.net.
> ftp IN CNAME root.smxtech.net.
> irc IN CNAME root.smxtech.net.
> * IN CNAME root.smxtech.net.
>
> can some1 tell me what I have done wrong???
>
> Mr Sachin Duggal
> T/A SMX Technologies
> Your humble servant in the protection of the Earth and the Rigths of the
> Child
> United Nations Environment Programme & ICCJB
>
>
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