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Date:      Tue, 7 Jul 1998 09:18:43 -0500
From:      "Alex Weeks" <aweeks@ilinkusa.net>
To:        "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Secondary DNS and MX
Message-ID:  <002701bda9b2$2623dfc0$1a4bdacd@puttputt.ilinkusa.net>

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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Alex Weeks <aweeks@ilinkusa.net>
Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Monday, July 06, 1998 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: Secondary DNS and MX


>On Monday,  6 July 1998 at 21:53:35 -0500, Alex Weeks wrote:
>> From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
>>
>>> On Monday,  6 July 1998 at 17:07:12 -0500, Alex Weeks wrote:
>>>> I have started to do secondary DNS for a customer.  Secondary DNS is
>> working
>>>> fine, however, we can no longer send mail from us to him.  All mail is
>>>> returned saying MX entry points back to our mail server.
>>>>
>>>> As far as I can tell there is no obvious reason for this.  Dig on our
>> server
>>>> shows the mx entry correctly (his mail server) and dig on his shows the
>>>> same.  nslookup also looks good on both machines.
>>>>
>>>> Our nameserver and mail server are the same machine.  His nameserver
and
>>>> mailserver are the same as well.
>>>>
>>>> We're both running FreeBSD 2.2.5
>>>>
>>>> Anyone got any idea?
>>>
>>> No, I haven't seen the relevant files yet.  It would help if you just
>>> state the domain name, then I could pull them across the net.
>>
>> Wanna do it the easy way huh? ;)
>
>Well, it was easier than explaining exactly what you need to do.  But
>*please* copy -questions on your replies.  You're the fourth person
>I've had to say this to today.
>
>> Our domain is intellilink.net .  Our nameserver is aqua.intellilink.net
>>
>> The customer's domain is ahoc.net .  His nameserver is ns.ahoc.net
>
>OK.  I don't see any secondary name servers on either domain.
>ns.ahoc.net doesn't have reverse mapping, though that's not likely to
>be the problem.
>
>> set type=ns
>> server 205.218.75.65
>Default Server:  ns.ahoc.net
>Address:  205.218.75.65
>
>> 205.218.75.65
>Server:  ns.ahoc.net
>Address:  205.218.75.65
>
>*** ns.ahoc.net can't find 205.218.75.65: Non-existent host/domain
>> ahoc.net
>Server:  ns.ahoc.net
>Address:  205.218.75.65
>
>ahoc.net        nameserver = ahoc.net
>ahoc.net        internet address = 205.218.75.65
>
>Let's see a copy of a rejected header.
>


Here you go.

-------------------------

This is a MIME-encapsulated message

--JAA23228.899820626/Aqua.IntelliLink.net

The original message was received at Tue, 7 Jul 1998 09:10:26 -0500 (CDT)
from aweeks@localhost

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
antone@ahoc.net

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 MX list for ahoc.net. points back to Aqua.IntelliLink.net
554 antone@ahoc.net... Local configuration error

--JAA23228.899820626/Aqua.IntelliLink.net
Content-Type: message/delivery-status

Reporting-MTA: dns; Aqua.IntelliLink.net
Arrival-Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 09:10:26 -0500 (CDT)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; antone@ahoc.net
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.0
Remote-MTA: DNS; ahoc.net
Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 09:10:26 -0500 (CDT)

Thanks again for the help.

Alex Weeks
aweeks@ilinkusa.net


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