You are not a jerk and I didn't take it that way. Matter o factness is the best way to communicate. You have just told me what I needed to know about the sub domains. And I get what you are saying about the rest. Not so much over my head and a little foggy about the details. These domains are test domains anyways with only about 8 email accounts in either of them so I am ok for my job. When I get the balls to do imcu.com then I better know what the hell I doing. Thanks again.
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DNS settings tool David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] wrote: > My problem is I don't understand it enough to give information. You should probabbly call in a paid consultant/IT services firm, then. Unfortunately I'm not in the Indiana area so I can't recommend one. I'm not getting all your mail on this list. The only reason I even saw your mail is someone else replied to it. I suspect your recent changes did something wrong, and your mail is sometimes getting filtered as spam. It's going to be very hard to fix your email over email. See above about paid experts. I'm not trying to be a jerk; I'm trying to give you the best advice I can. To me, it looks like you're in way over your head and may be on the verge of serious Internet infrastructure trouble. If you really want to try and fix that by email on a volunteer mailing list, I'll certainly try to help, but your boss may fire you first. > Now I want to go to the Internet and query those two domains and make sure > the MX, A, PTR, and TXT(SPF) records have all been updated correctly. If you just want to view what the records at the nameservers currently are, open up a command prompt and do: nslookup -type=ANY %DOMAIN_NAME% %AUTHORITATIVE_DNS_SERVER_NAME% For example: nslookup -type=ANY imcu.com. pdns1.ultradns.net. If you don't know your registered nameservers, ask the root servers: nslookup -type=ANY imcu.com. a.root-servers.net. They will prolly give you a delegation to another set of servers -- that is, you will just see a list of nameservers and IP address. Pick one of the offered nameservers and repeat until you get the answers you're looking for. For example, I can tell you that currently, <imcu.org.> is delegated to UltraDNS. <pdns1.ultradns.net.> says imcu.org.> an MX of <mx1.imcu.org.>, which has IP address <206.18.123.221>. The SPF record specifies that same IP address, and excludes all others. But I have no idea if that is "correct" or not. I have no knowledge of your infrastructure or what you're trying to do, the way things were before or what they're supposed to be now. > The prefixes (I probably used the wrong name) are like pop.imcu.org, > smtp.imcu.org, mail.imcu.org, www.imcu.org like that.... Technically, those are called "child domains" or "subdomains", but what do you want to do with them? I can tell you that <pdns1.ultradns.net.> tells me that <www.imcu.org.> has IP address <12.145.177.146>, but has no MX record. (But you probabbly don't want your web server to have an MX record.) There does seem to be a website that responds to the name <www.imcu.org> at that IP address. You're "Indiana Members Credit Union", right? There's no tool you can run from a third-party website that will talk your DNS sub-tree automatically -- your nameservers are configured *NOT* to tell the public all the records under your domain (zone transfer). You will need access to your DNS zone file (or the UltraDNS equivalent). -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
