If you're seeing this on the list then I think it's fixed. -Alex
On 03/21/2015 05:29 PM, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > Echo! > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 04:58:33PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: >> >> 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 > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech