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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!chi-news.cic.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!thales.nmia.com!gallup.cia-g.com!lithium From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DNS MX records? Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 16:33:12 -0700 Organization: New Mexico Internet Access Lines: 100 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960228161741.409A-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> References: <8284-264437101@pinboard.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gallup.cia-g.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <8284-264437101@pinboard.com> On Wed, 28 Feb 1996 kurt@pinboard.com wrote: > > I've either got a problem or I'm misunderstanding something. > > My FreeBSD machine is set up as a primary name server. However, mail > needs to go to another machine. My hosts file for converting domains > to IP addresses looks like: > > .... > SOA > .... > > IN NS mymachine.my.net.work. > IN MX mail.ser.ver. > localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 > > mymachine IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > IN MX 10 mail.ser.ver. > alias IN CNAME mymachine.my.net.work. > > ... > > An nslookup tells me that the mail exchanger for both > mymachine.my.net.work and my.net.work is mail.ser.ver, and if I send > mail to myself@my.net.work, it correctly goes to mail.ser.ver. However, > if I send mail to myself@mymachine.my.net.work, then it does not go to > mail.ser.ver, but is put in my mailbox at mymachine.my.net.work. Can > anybody tell me what I missed or misunderstood or mixed up? I need mail > to @my.net.work AND @mymachine.my.net.work to be delivered to > mail.ser.ver. It should be like this: example from me: -[ cia-g.com.zone ]- @ IN SOA gallup.cia-g.com. lithium.cia-g.com. ( 15 ; Serial 10800 ; Refresh after 3 hours 3600 ; Retry after 1 hour 604800 ; Expire after 1 week 86400 ; Minimum TTL of 1 day ) ;; Name Servers IN NS gallup.cia-g.com. IN NS thales.nmia.com. ns IN A 206.206.162.10 cia-g.com. IN A 206.206.162.10 IN MX 0 mailer.cia-g.com. ..tons deleted.. -[ sageweb.com.zone ]- @ IN SOA gallup.cia-g.com. lithium.cia-g.com. ( 2 ; Serial 10800 ; Refresh after 3 hours 3600 ; Retry after 1 hour 604800 ; Expire after 1 week 86400 ; Minimum TTL of 1 day ) ;; Name servers IN NS gallup.cia-g.com. ;; Hosts www IN A 206.206.162.15 IN A 206.206.162.15 IN MX 0 gallup.cia-g.com. --- Feel free to discuss it further with me.. I've finally gotten pretty good with DNS/BIND after buying the book and trial&error for months :) I'm too tired to figure out exactly what you said aboove.. I don't know if both hosts are on the same domain, etc.. Good luck. - Steve - Systems Manager