I am currently plodding through setting up a MX record via my registrar. As the SIMS documentation is unclear on the following I have a few more dumb questions to ask:
i) should the fully qualified domain name to my SIMS server be "mail.softdawn.net" or simply "softdawn.net"?
ii) when setting up my mail client to retrieve messages from SIMS what name should I give to the to the Incoming Mail Server - "pop.softdawn.net", or something else?
iii) when setting up my mail client to send messages via SIMS what name should I give to the Outgoing Mail Server - "mail.softdawn.net"?
regards
Robert
On Jun 11, 2004, at 1:25 AM, Robert Dorning wrote:
In your Telnet log there is a reference to "directnic". This is the company I registered my domain names through. I thought I had successfully redirected "softdawn.net" to my fixed IP address through DirectNIC's web site options. It appears this is not the case.
How do you set up the DNS directly? Do I do it through my ISP or can I do it? Is there a web site which explains these things?
Through your registrar or ISP -- they should be able to help you with this. They may have a method for doing it via the web, as you suggest they do, or you might have to get them involved manually.
More specifically, I do a "whois" on your domain & get:
[gigantor:~] techno% whois softdawn.net
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
Domain Name: SOFTDAWN.NET Registrar: INTERCOSMOS MEDIA GROUP, INC. D/B/A DIRECTNIC.COM Whois Server: whois.directnic.com Referral URL: http://www.directnic.com Name Server: NS0.DIRECTNIC.COM Name Server: NS1.DIRECTNIC.COM Status: ACTIVE Updated Date: 30-oct-2003 Creation Date: 30-oct-2003 Expiration Date: 30-oct-2005
[remainder of junk cut]
So your name servers are with directnic.com & that's where you need to make the changes.
To test things, use "dig":
[gigantor:~] techno% dig softdawn.net
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> softdawn.net ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29446 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION: ;softdawn.net. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION: softdawn.net. 86400 IN A 204.251.10.218
;; Query time: 361 msec ;; SERVER: 216.231.41.2#53(216.231.41.2) ;; WHEN: Fri Jun 11 01:39:17 2004 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 46
This shows the "A" (address) record pointing at 204.251.10.218
More importantly, the MX (mail) records are:
[gigantor:~] techno% dig softdawn.net mx
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> softdawn.net mx ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41455 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION: ;softdawn.net. IN MX
;; ANSWER SECTION:
softdawn.net. 86400 IN MX 10 iris1.directnic.com.
softdawn.net. 86400 IN MX 10 iris2.directnic.com.
;; Query time: 97 msec ;; SERVER: 66.92.224.2#53(66.92.224.2) ;; WHEN: Fri Jun 11 01:46:58 2004 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 87
(Note: I don't remember seeing the MX entries earlier today, but that may just be me.)
You _will_ need to change these and point them at your mail server. These should list the name of a system with an "A" record (points to an IP "A"ddress), not a "C" record (Canonical name -- points to another machine name). You will also want to let directnic know that you do not want them handling mail for you anymore, as you might otherwise lose email into a hole there.
The SIMS log doesn't record anything. I have them set at the highest level. I think the problem is as you suggest.
It is a long weekend here and I'm going away for 3 days. I will work on it again on Tuesday.
Good luck with it -- enjoy the weekend. Let us know if you continue to have problems.
Tim -- Timothy Binder, President Philadelphia Science Fiction Society <http://www.psfs.org/> Upcoming Programming: John Passarella, Hugo Panel
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