Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:08:33 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: vagner <george@www.timandpatrick.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad dest address Message-ID: <20000225080833.D18112@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <001001bf7f6e$25f979e0$b3b65c8b@oemcomputer>; from george@www.timandpatrick.com on Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 10:56:03AM %2B0200 References: <001001bf7f6e$25f979e0$b3b65c8b@oemcomputer>
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On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 10:56:03AM +0200, vagner wrote:
> I am lost as to why I keep getting this error.
>
>
> I host my domain name on another server and point it to my machine
This means that there is some hostname pointing it to your machine?
What is being pointed exactly?
> Also I have a dns server running on my other machine with the mail MX
> Record pointing to itself.
OK, so that is not pointing at your machine.
> I am getting Bad destination system address when sending to the other
> machine.
When sending... what? Email I assume?
> I can lookup the dns via nslookup and it seems ok it comes back with the
> Correct address.
Good. But can you find the MX record?
> I checked hosts, named, sendmail.cf etc and cant figure out why.
>
> The domain is vetex.com
I must say that your DNS is really messed up for that domain.
% dig vetex.com any
; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> vetex.com any
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; vetex.com, type = ANY, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
vetex.com. 1d21h31m25s IN NS NS1.EARTHLINK.NET.
vetex.com. 1d21h31m25s IN NS WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM.
vetex.com. 55m11s IN A 24.14.27.99
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
vetex.com. 1d21h31m25s IN NS NS1.EARTHLINK.NET.
vetex.com. 1d21h31m25s IN NS WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
NS1.EARTHLINK.NET. 1d9h50m33s IN A 207.217.126.41
WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM. 1d20h4m47s IN A 24.1.216.237
;; Total query time: 1 msec
;; FROM: cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
;; WHEN: Fri Feb 25 08:01:41 2000
;; MSG SIZE sent: 27 rcvd: 169
% dig @NS1.EARTHLINK.NET vetex.com any
; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @NS1.EARTHLINK.NET vetex.com any
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; vetex.com, type = ANY, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
vetex.com. 1d5h26m23s IN NS NS1.EARTHLINK.NET.
vetex.com. 1d5h26m23s IN NS WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
vetex.com. 1d5h26m23s IN NS NS1.EARTHLINK.NET.
vetex.com. 1d5h26m23s IN NS WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
NS1.EARTHLINK.NET. 1D IN A 207.217.126.41
WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM. 1d14h30m25s IN A 24.1.216.237
;; Total query time: 113 msec
;; FROM: cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com to SERVER: NS1.EARTHLINK.NET 207.217.12
6.41
;; WHEN: Fri Feb 25 08:04:47 2000
;; MSG SIZE sent: 27 rcvd: 153
% dig @WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM vetex.com any
; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM vetex.com any
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; vetex.com, type = ANY, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
vetex.com. 1H IN SOA www.timandpatrick.com. root.www.timandpa
trick.com. (
7 ; serial
3H ; refresh
1H ; retry
1W ; expiry
1H ) ; minimum
vetex.com. 1H IN NS www.timandpatrick.com.
vetex.com. 1H IN A 24.14.27.99
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
www.timandpatrick.com. 1H IN A 24.1.216.237
;; Total query time: 93 msec
;; FROM: cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com to SERVER: WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM 24.1.2
16.237
;; WHEN: Fri Feb 25 08:04:59 2000
;; MSG SIZE sent: 27 rcvd: 135
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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