Re: BIND

From: Ditch Brodie (dbroadie_at_msn.com)
Date: 05/16/04

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    Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 22:58:26 GMT

    I use a dns service too but gave up running BIND a while ago. I figure why
    bother with it when Earthlink has plenty of DNS servers available. But even
    when I ran BIND I had no trouble getting mail to my server from the
    Internet.

    Remember, the free DNS service is where the packets get sent in the first
    place because the main Internet DNS servers are going to resolve the URL to
    it's true owner. The free DNS service then redirects the packets to your ip
    address.

    Nothing looks out of the ordinary in your setup. Have you checked to be sure
    you have sendmail configured properly.../etc/mail/local-hosts,
    /etc/mail/relay-domains, etc....and oh yes, your ISP will probably block
    anything you send down port 25. In that case you can still use your server
    to receive mail. Use your ISP's SMTP server for outgoing.

    "wally" <root@localhost.localdomain> wrote in message
    news:nSrpc.87059$FH5.2211045@news20.bellglobal.com...
    > jsut a quicke...
    > I have registered for a free DNS name form one of those dynamic ip
    companies
    > now i got xxx.yyy.com where yyy is the DNS name of the provider and xxx is
    > what i picked.
    >
    > given the below zone file, why can't it resolve mail.xxx.yyy.com
    > why dont i get any results when I do dig quires. I can connect to it with
    > nslookup - xxx.yyy.com from the internet, but it cant resolve any of the
    > internal hosts. the DNS server is running fine since it will resolve other
    > addresses by looking up the ISPs dns, so i am guessing that I messed up my
    > zone file.
    >
    > note that the computers are behind a NAT router/firewall so thats why i
    made
    > them all resolve to the one (dynamic) address given to me by my ISP.
    > Incoming ports are being forwared correctly, i just need the DNS working
    so
    > that other smtp servers can get the MX entry in order to forward e-mail
    >
    >
    > $TTL 360 ; Default cached time to live for all records
    >
    > xxx.yyy.com. IN SOA ns.xxx.yyy.com.
    > (
    > 2003120401; Serial
    > 172800 ; Refresh every 2 days
    > 3600 ; Retry every hour
    > 1728000 ; Expire every 20 days
    > 172800 ); Minimum 2 days
    >
    > @ IN NS ns.xxx.yyy.com.
    >
    > ; Set the Mail Exchange record
    >
    > @ IN MX 10 mail.xxx.yyy.com.
    >
    > mail IN A xxx.yyy.com.
    > www IN A xxx.yyy.com.
    > ns IN A xxx.yyy.com.
    >

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