[techtalk] Still yet again more DNS woes (Email this time!)

[John Elliott]

Here is a link for testing mailservers:

http://www.zmailer.org/mxverify.html


Hope this helps

On Sunday 28 January 2001 23:57, you wrote:

> > Ok, anytime I try to email kath at kathweb.net, I get the following:
>
> Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:
>
>   Recipient address: kath at kathweb.net
>   Reason: Illegal host/domain name found
>
> Now according to my zone record, the mail server is set:
> @ IN SOA www.kathweb.net. root.ns3.kathweb.net.  (
>                                        1997022700 ; Serial
>                                        28800      ; Refresh
>                                        14400      ; Retry
>                                        3600000    ; Expire
>                                        86400 )    ; Minimum
>
>                  IN      NS      ns3.kathweb.net.
>                  IN      NS      ns2.kathweb.net.
>                  IN      MX      10 ns3.kathweb.net.
>
> ;
> ; host addresses
> ;
> localhost       IN      A       127.0.0.1
> ns3             IN      A       24.189.168.161
> ns2             IN      A       207.127.75.180
> kathweb.net. IN A 24.189.168.161
> ;
> ; canonical aliases
> ;
> mail            IN      CNAME  ns3
> irc             IN      CNAME   ns3
> www              IN      CNAME   ns3
> kathweb.net     IN    CNAME   ns3
> phpmyadmin      IN      CNAME ns3
> myphpshop       IN      CNAME ns3
>
> Now prior, my MX server was set to the old server, ns1.kathweb.net.  I
> fixed that now, as you can see in the zone entry.  But it still doesn't
> work. :/  Would changing the Refresh/Retry/Expire thingy at the top work? 
> Yes, I have already done "killall -HUP named".
>
> - Kath, who grows to hate the internet more and more everyday

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