RE: Help w/DNS MX records

2012-05-17 Thread Richard McClary
Thanks. Comments in-line... -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 11:01 PM I really, strongly, highly, and in all other ways recommend that you specify things using FQDNs (with trailing dots) everywhere in your DNS zone

Re: Help w/DNS MX records

2012-05-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: The only reason I was able to get the Cogent system to accept an MX record for faxcore1 was, I had a typo in the line.  Once I corrected the spelling, then the system would not take it.  (The technician at Cogent

RE: Help w/DNS MX records

2012-05-16 Thread Richard McClary
tells me, is redundant and won't be created. Time for more testing; thanks! -- richard From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 9:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Help w/DNS MX records On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl

Re: Help w/DNS MX records

2012-05-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: I was “distracted” by the presence of the trailing dots rather than the absence of anything meaningful (like a domain name) prior to the dot. The two things are related. When it comes to a DNS server,

RE: Help w/DNS MX records

2012-05-16 Thread Richard McClary
... From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 6:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Help w/DNS MX records On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.orgmailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: I was distracted by the presence

Re: Help w/DNS MX records

2012-05-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: [quotes reordered for editorial convenience] Sorry about using the term “MIP”, but someone else realized I was using Juniper and answered those questions. I was guessing from context anyway, but as we all know,

Help w/DNS MX records

2012-05-15 Thread Richard McClary
Greetings! We have an email-to fax gateway (Faxcore). Our email system is hosted Exchange (Perimeter), and our external DNS is hosted by Cogent. The external FQDN for the gateway is faxcore1.mwro.aspca.org. There is an MX record for faxcore1.mwro. with the data entry faxcore1.mwro.aspca.org.

RE: Help w/DNS MX records

2012-05-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
What did you do to test the pathway into NYC? From: Richard McClary [mailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 8:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Help w/DNS MX records Greetings! We have an email-to fax gateway (Faxcore). Our email system is hosted Exchange

RE: Help w/DNS MX records

2012-05-15 Thread Richard McClary
like 5), it was a poor test as DNS was still directing mail to the higher priority address. Thanks! -- richard From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 8:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help w/DNS MX records What did you do to test

Re: Help w/DNS MX records

2012-05-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: Currently, we have these DNS entries with Cogent: faxcore1.mwro A 63.85.204.151 faxcore1.mwro.    MX  10  faxcore1.mwro.aspca.org What's with the trailing dot at the end

RE: Help w/DNS MX records

2012-05-15 Thread Richard McClary
changes and try again. I'll then let you know. Thanks again! -- richard -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 8:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Help w/DNS MX records On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Richard McClary

Re: Help w/DNS MX records

2012-05-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: The trailing dots on the LHS were there from when records including Faxcore were imported first from ATT (which may have put them in somewhat automatically in their web interface) to Internap, and then from

Re: Help w/DNS MX records

2012-05-15 Thread Ben Scott
Back here now... On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.orgwrote: The external FQDN for the gateway is “faxcore1.mwro.aspca.org”. I see this from here. There is an MX record for “faxcore1.mwro.” with the data entry “faxcore1.mwro.aspca.org.” (priority

Re: Help w/DNS MX records

2012-05-15 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
I believe you are correct. IIRC, MIPs (Mapped IPs) and VIPs (Virtual IPs) are variations for IP forwarding related jargon on Juniper's. -- Espi On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: What does MIP mean? Port forwarding? Something fancier? ~ Finally,