>I don't know either. They could have but it seemed odd 20 of them suddenly
>did it at once.
Patti,
It could be your mess of a DNS.
Replace the swbell NS's from your vip1.net zone file with your own NS
hostnames.
Your NS's are telling other NS's that swbell.net are your NS's but
swbell.net's ns1 doesn't have your zones anymore:
VirusGate# dig +norec @ns1.swbell.net vip1.net mx
; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> +norec @ns1.swbell.net vip1.net mx
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 17302
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 12, ADDITIONAL: 12
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; vip1.net, type = MX, class = IN
but ns2 does, but it's not answering authoritatively:
VirusGate# dig +norec @ns2.swbell.net vip1.net mx
; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> +norec @ns2.swbell.net vip1.net mx
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48465
;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; vip1.net, type = MX, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
vip1.net. 59m40s IN MX 1 mail.vip1.net.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
vip1.net. 1d23h59m40s IN NS NS2.vip1.net.
vip1.net. 1d23h59m40s IN NS NS1.vip1.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mail.vip1.net. 59m40s IN A 208.188.245.249
NS2.vip1.net. 5h39m2s IN A 208.188.245.249
NS1.vip1.net. 5h5m35s IN A 208.188.245.250
Plus both your NS's allows zone transfer:
VirusGate# dig @ns2.vip1.net vip1.net axfr
; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @ns2.vip1.net vip1.net axfr
; (1 server found)
$ORIGIN vip1.net.
@ 1H IN SOA ns1 pjones (
38 ; serial
1H ; refresh
10M ; retry
1D ; expiry
1H ) ; minimum
5467w5d20h16m IN A 208.188.245.250
5467w5d20h16m IN NS ns1.swbell.net.
5467w5d20h16m IN NS ns2.swbell.net.
1H IN NS ns2
1H IN NS ns1
1H IN MX 1 mail
ftp 1H IN A 208.188.245.250
mail 1H IN A 208.188.245.249
1H IN MX 1 208.188.245.249.
max-199 1H IN A 208.188.245.199
max-200 1H IN A 208.188.245.200
max-201 1H IN A 208.188.245.201
ns1 1H IN A 208.188.245.250
ns2 1H IN A 208.188.245.249
pjones 1H IN A 208.188.245.249
www 1H IN A 208.188.245.250
Your second MX record is both wrong (should be hostname, not ip
address) and unnecessary.
Len
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