3 Oct
2010
3 Oct
'10
4:26 p.m.
Hi Max,
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 08:31:12AM -0700, Max B wrote:
MX 5 smtp.exoco.net.
MX 50 backup.mail.bitfolk.com
The above line needs a "." on the end otherwise it will expand to
backup.mail.bitfolk.com.exoco.net.
You seem to have it fixed on the actual nameserver though:
$ dig +short -t mx exoco.net @212.13.195.120
0 smtp.exoco.net.
50 backup.mail.bitfolk.com.
That's the only issue I can see in the zone file.
The registrar currently has different nameservers set for this zone:
$ jwhois exoco.net
[...]
Domain servers in listed order:
NS51.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS52.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Which means that queries are going to hit those nameservers, not
your own one. This may be intentional if you're not ready to have
live queries hit your nameserver yet. Just checking you were aware.
there seems to be some confusion about what I meant
when I wrote 'config
script'.
I meant what you termed a 'zone file'.
What do you mean by 'config script'??
By "config" I thought you meant the configuration of the name
server, which you normally find in /etc/bind/named.conf,
/etc/bind/named.conf.options etc. on Debian.
Your name server appears to basically work in that it answers
queries, so there can't be anything too badly wrong. You will
probably need to poke around in order to allow zone transfer to the
bitfolk nameservers when you're ready for that.
What is the difference between 'mail...' and
'smtp...'?
They are just words. Call it binky-the-mailinator.exoco.net if you
want.
What happens if I have both written?
Depends where you write them. Show us a zone file and we'll tell you
what it does.
Does the 'smtp' string affect how the outside
world formats the mail?
No.
What happens if I have written 'ns1...' in the
'@ SOA' line and 'NS
ns.exoco.net.' further below?
The server name in the SOA line is supposed to be a clue to humans
as to which server has the canonical, master copy of the zone. In
practice it can be an arbitrary string as long as it's syntactically
valid.
If I were you I'd put ns.exoco.net there, if ns.exoco.net is going
to be the name of your nameserver.
What happens if I have a delay of 'MX 5
smtp.exoco.net' in my bind zone file,
and give a delay of 0 to my domain registry?
I think by "delay" you mean "priority", that would be the usual term
for the number after the "MX".
I don't know what you mean by giving one thing to your registrar and
having another thing in your zone file. The only data that matters
is what exists in the zone files of the nameservers listed at your
registrar.
Unless you tell your registrar to use your nameservers, queries are
only going to hit the ones they have set and so it won't matter what
you put in your bind. No one will direct queries to it.
Cheers,
Andy
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