As far as I can tell I have everything setup correctly. I have looked it over till I can't see it. I goto mxtoolbox.com and I am getting the following: mx lookup for redtalkers.net Loop detected! We were referred back to '23.31.67.21' a:redtalkers.net Loop detected! We were referred back to '23.31.67.21' dns:redtalkers.net None of the name servers responded in a timely manner Now I do redtalkers.com and it comes out fine mx:redtalkers.com 10 mail.redtalkers.com 23.31.67.21 60 min Blacklist Check SMTP Test Usually I can look through the posting on forums and find what I am doing wrong but this one has me stumped. Thank you in advance for the help on this matter.
pri.redtalkers.net.err $TTL 3600 @ IN SOA ns1.redtalkers.net. webmaster.redtalkers.net. ( 2014052601 ; serial, todays date + todays serial # 7200 ; refresh, seconds 540 ; retry, seconds 604800 ; expire, seconds 86400 ) ; minimum, seconds ; mail 3600 A 23.31.67.21 redtalkers.net. 3600 A 23.31.67.21 www 3600 A 23.31.67.21 redtalkers.net. 3600 MX 10 mail.redtalkers.net. redtalkers.net. 3600 NS ns1.redtalkers.net. redtalkers.net. 3600 NS ns2.redtalkers.net. This is the only file that has a err behind it however I am getting a error with redtalkers.org also. mx:redtalkers.org "Lookup failed after 2 name servers timed out or responded non-authoritatively" $TTL 3600 @ IN SOA ns1.redtalkers.net. webmaster.redtalkers.org. ( 2014052701 ; serial, todays date + todays serial # 7200 ; refresh, seconds 540 ; retry, seconds 604800 ; expire, seconds 86400 ) ; minimum, seconds ; mail 3600 A 23.31.67.21 redtalkers.org. 3600 A 23.31.67.21 www 3600 A 23.31.67.21 redtalkers.org. 3600 MX 10 mail.redtalkers.org. redtalkers.org. 3600 NS ns1.redtalkers.net. redtalkers.org. 3600 NS ns2.redtalkers.net.
The A-Records for the NS records are missing. If NS records are subdomains of the same zone, then this zone must contains A-Records for them as well. add 2 new a-records to the zone, one for "ns1" and one for "ns2" pointing to the IP address of your server.
ok, "old man puts his glasses on" Should there also be a A record containing @ 23.31.67.21? Just wanted to add that the above did fix the problem
No. @ is just an alias for redtalkers.org., so you have that records already: redtalkers.org. 3600 A 23.31.67.21
