Brian came over, I did the song & dance to gain access to the account at domaindiscover aka tierra.net, and we fiddled with things.
How's it looking now? (5:07pm pacific today will be approx 1hr after the settings were chaged, FYI) -bill! On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:56:21PM -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote: > Bill Kendrick <n...@sonic.net> writes: > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:24:10AM -0800, Rod Roark wrote: > >> On 02/23/2015 11:20 AM, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > >> > Hey, so word is that some can't send email to the lugod lists because the > >> > mailserver the MX record is a CNAME rather than an A record? > >> > > >> > brian > >> > >> Dunno who's administering the lugod.org domain, but whoever that is > >> should be able to fix it. > > > > That'd be me. Thx for looking into it folks, I'll try to figure > > it out next time I'm on my home laptop (which has all the creds > > to get into things). > > Hiya. DNS geek here. Things are still technically incorrect as > currently deployed. You aren't supposed to have a name after a service > referral (in this case an MX) that is itself a CNAME referral. > > This is fine: > > # dig lugod.org mx > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > lugod.org. 3600 IN MX 10 www.lugod.org. > > This is not: > > # dig www.lugod.org. > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > www.lugod.org. 3600 IN CNAME lugod.org. > lugod.org. 3600 IN A 173.13.165.50 > > *some* (most) DNS resolution software lets you get away with that, but > it's not legal according to the DNS RFCs and shouldn't be done. > > > The right thing to do would be to replace the MX record so it looked > like this: > > lugod.org. 3600 IN MX 10 lugod.org. > > Which would then work. Though, the best thing to do is actually create > a new host record: > > lugod.org. 3600 IN MX 10 mail.lugod.org. > mail.lugod.org. 3600 IN A 173.13.165.50 > > :-) > -- > Wes Hardaker > My Pictures: http://capturedonearth.com/ > My Thoughts: http://pontifications.hardakers.net/ > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- -bill! Sent from my computer _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech