Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:04:02 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: Wm Brian McCane <root@bmccane.maxbaud.net> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named errors Message-ID: <35084DC2.7EC20650@dal.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980312095336.2892A-100000@bmccane.maxbaud.net>
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Wm Brian McCane wrote: > > I am getting the following message (and many similar to it) in my log files. > > sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) on maxbaud.net? NXDOMAIN is generally returned by a nameserver when it thinks it should be authoritative for a domain but it has no records. It's not related to reverse mapping, but it does indicate a fairly serious problem. As of serial number 98031201 you seem to have things straightened out, so hopefully you found the error. One error that you SHOULD change is that your main MX record points to a CNAME (mail.maxbaud.net). This is an absolute violation of the RFC's and some mailers on the internet will not be able to send you mail because of the error. The simple solution is to change the CNAME record for mail to an A record and give it the same IP as maxbaud.net. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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