Hi All I'm having a problem receiving external mail, i can send no problems and receive mail internally. So i used http://www.mxtoolbox.com to verify my DNS records and it returns that my MX record points to the IP 0.0.0.0. Which is not right. Here are my DNS records copied straight out of the ispconfig control panel (proper names replaced): A mail ***.***.***.189 0 A domain.tld. ***.***.***.189 0 A www ***.***.***.189 0 MX domain.tld. mail.domain.tld. 10 NS domain.tld. ns1.***.***. 0 NS domain.tld. ns2.***.***. 0 Please if anybody can see something wrong or if im missing a record? I did use the dns wizard to setup these records. Any help much appreciated.
Is your ISPConfig server authoritative for your domain? You can check that by running Code: dig ns yourdomain.com Also, you can check your DNS settings on www.intodns.com
Thanks Falko I ran a test on intoDNS and the mx record had this error: Your MX records that were reported by your nameservers are: 10 mail.domain.tld No A Record (no glue either) [These are all the MX records that I found. If there are some non common MX records at your nameservers you should see them below. ]
Hi So i added an A record like you said(below), but still nothing. A mail.domain.tld. ***.***.***.189 0 Is there something wrong with it? Is there a place i can check through ssh on the server where these records are stored?
If you use BIND, check out /etc/bind/named.conf and the files included in there. You can also check your domain here: http://www.intodns.com/
Hi Falko I can't see anything wrong, this thing is just driving me nuts.... Thanks for your help. www.intodns.com still giving the same story: 10 mail.domain.tld No A Record (no glue either)
This is the response i get when running dig (i have no idea what this means): ; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> ns domain.tld ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 11348 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;domain.tld. IN NS ;; ANSWER SECTION: domain.tld. 600 IN NS ns1.otherdomain.tld. domain.tld. 600 IN NS ns2.otherdomain.tld. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.otherdomain.tld. 293 IN A ***.***.***.*** ns2.otherdomain.tld. 294 IN A ***.***.***.*** ;; Query time: 31 msec ;; SERVER: ***.***.***.***#53(***.***.***.***) ;; WHEN: Wed Aug 3 11:27:59 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 104
Is the IP address displayed in the line ns1.otherdomain.tld the IP address of your dns server? If not, then your server is not authoritive for that domain.
yeah i got that, i pinged the dns server of the company who is hosting our server and the ip address that is in the dig is the same as the ip address that i got from pinging the dns server.
A records for nameservers Hi, I have had this problem before and all I had to do after using the wizard is add A records for the name servers. You will notice that your have authority "0" - no name servers. Should look like this: AUTHORITY 2 Just add 2 records to the one created for you by the wizard like this: ns1 domain.tld IP of the nameserver and - ns2 domain.tld IP of secondary dns Till did a screenshot ages ago which showed the setup well but I can't find it right now ... just make sure you only put in "ns1" like where it says "www" .. and nothing else - also don't forget the "." after (<--- Edited - when you are adding other records like MX records (A records should points to an IP)
Hi Sorry just a little confused as to what to put in. attached is a screenshot of the inputs. so i put ns1 in the host name box, and the ip of the name sever in the ip-address box? And then repeat for ns2?
Yes that is right. ns1 and the external IP address of your nameserver (for example your static IP) People have different setups. I have only a single static IP at the moment so both of my nameservers are on the same IP. For ns2 you should have a second IP but people rarely complain about that these days due the world running out of IPv4 IP's ... Remember that if your server goes down then both of your name servers go down. Did you take a look at Falkos new how to about setting up DNS ?
