Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 14:27:41 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Joost Bekkers <joost@bps.jodocus.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: obscure firewall and mail problem... Message-ID: <3CFA639D.9060906@potentialtech.com> References: <200206020800.g52803901241@tao.thought.org> <3CF9F896.3000106@potentialtech.com> <20020602152128.A3792@bps.jodocus.org>
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Joost Bekkers wrote: > On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 06:51:02AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > >>The order in which things appear in the DNS config is important. Generally, >>putting the MX record as the first record (after the SOA) works pretty well. > > Not true, order is irrelevant in dns. You can put your records in any order you want, > just make sure you use the correct name for the record. Not true in all cases. The example you show below works just fine because the MX record specifies the domain at the beginning of the DNS. You don't _have_ to specify the domain in front of the DNS, but then the order matters. So we're both right. Whether or not he's got his order wrong, or he's incorrectly specified his domain, I still think the problem sounds like an incorrectly specified MX record. > freebsd.org. 3600 IN SOA NS0.freebsd.org. hostmaster.freebsd.org. 102051802 1800 900 604800 1800 > freebsd.org. 3600 IN NS ns1.root.com. > freebsd.org. 3600 IN NS ns0.freebsd.org. > www.freebsd.org. 3600 IN A 216.136.204.117 > freebsd.org. 600 IN MX 10 hub.freebsd.org. > > is exactly the same as > > freebsd.org. 3600 IN SOA NS0.freebsd.org. hostmaster.freebsd.org. 102051802 1800 900 604800 1800 > freebsd.org. 600 IN MX 10 hub.freebsd.org. > freebsd.org. 3600 IN NS ns1.root.com. > freebsd.org. 3600 IN NS ns0.freebsd.org. > www.freebsd.org. 3600 IN A 216.136.204.117 -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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