Does it matter which DNS IP address you use in your SMTP settings? Does it
have to be the same one that has your MX record, etc?
Interland is my web host, but I use the DNS at freeservers.com through a
co-marketing deal with about.com so that I can set up free websites for my
visitors. I submitted the MX and A records to freeservers.com and they look
like this:
My rep wrote to me 'This is what we have in our servers for your domain':
keepkidshealthy.com
keepkidshealthy.com IN A 64.226.244.120
keepkidshealthy.com IN MX 5 imail.keepkidshealthy.com.
www.keepkidshealthy.com IN CNAME keepkidshealthy.com.
imail.keepkidshealthy.com IN A 64.226.244.120
They said that they couldn't enter a PTR record and that whoever owned the
IP addresses (Interland) had to do it, so I had Interland enter the PTR
record. Does that matter?
Ipswitch gave me another test DNS server to put in my SMTP settings, and I
was able to send mail fine with this one too. They also gave me one from
swbell.net and if I used that one, I could send email to my own email
address at swbell.net, but not to any other domains.
Does this look right? If something is wrong with my DNS settings or
something on my server, then I don't understand why things work if I use
ipswith's test DNS IP addresses....
I appreciate everyones help as I have no idea what to do from here and I am
getting very frustrated.
Thanks.
Vince
on 8/30/01 8:17 AM, John Tolmachoff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Make sure all the appropriate entries have been made at your ISP and
> freeservers.com in YOUR DNS domain zone, they have to have the correct
> records pointing to your server.
>
> John Tolmachoff, Network Engineer
>
> 211 E. Imperial Hwy., Suite 106
> Fullerton, CA� 92835
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> �
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Vince
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 2:25 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Can't send to external domains
>
> I just purchased IMail Server 7.03 (and have applied the latest hotfix)
> for
> my Windows 2000 server. Since installing it, I am unable to send email
> to
> external domains. Tech support says that my logs show that when I send
> mail, it is checking A records instead of MX records.
>
> After a long talk with Ipswitch tech support this morning, we found that
> if
> I used a test DNS server from Ipswitch in my IMail
> Admin SMTP settings, then I could send email just fine.
>
> But if I used my ISPs DNS (64.224.20.132) or the one from
> freeservers.com
> (who has my web sites own DNS records at 208.85.127.194) in my SMTP
> settings, then I can't send mail to most domains. A few, such as email
> to
> hp.com and earthlink.net do go through for some reason.
>
> My ISP and freeservers.com say that their DNS servers are working
> properly.
>
> Does anyone know of a reason why this situation could happen or how to
> fix
> it?
>
> I think my DNS records are set correctly.
>
> imail.keepkidshealthy.com
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> ------------
>
> Vince
>
> Keep Kids Healthy - free pediatric parenting advice
> -----> http://www.keepkidshealthy.com
>
>
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