On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 19:49 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Then you haven't tested it very thoroughly. You can use "whois" to get > a list of the authoritative DNS servers for the domain. If you query > all of them, you'll see that half of them give back bad data, and the > other half are OK. > > The emiratesbank.com admins need to fix their DNS zones. Until they do, > you won't be able to receive their mail. Not unless you want to set up > an "emiratesbank.com" zone in a DNS server that you control, and add the > records that you need. You can do that to work around the problem > temporarily. You probably only need to put in the MX records in order > to send and receive email while you ask them to correct the problem.
Thanks Gordon, I am using dnsmasq and was able to use the MX aliasing feature to supply the cache with a decent MX record as you eluded to so it is working now. for the benefit of the list archives, what you are refering to above is the nameservers returning bad data as below noting that the ns1 and ns2 are supplying the bad data? thanks eveyone for your help! m...@matt-laptop:~$ host -t mx emiratesbank.com ns1.emiratesbank.com Using domain server: Name: ns1.emiratesbank.com Address: 194.170.9.21#53 Aliases: emiratesbank.com mail is handled by 10 cust2443-2.in.mailcontrol.com \032. emiratesbank.com mail is handled by 10 cust2443-1.in.mailcontrol.com \032. m...@matt-laptop:~$ host -t mx emiratesbank.com ns2.emiratesbank.com Using domain server: Name: ns2.emiratesbank.com Address: 194.170.9.22#53 Aliases: emiratesbank.com mail is handled by 10 cust2443-2.in.mailcontrol.com \032. emiratesbank.com mail is handled by 10 cust2443-1.in.mailcontrol.com \032. m...@matt-laptop:~$ host -t mx emiratesbank.com ns3.emiratesbank.com Using domain server: Name: ns3.emiratesbank.com Address: 194.170.11.21#53 Aliases: emiratesbank.com mail is handled by 10 cust2443-2.in.mailcontrol.com. emiratesbank.com mail is handled by 10 cust2443-1.in.mailcontrol.com. m...@matt-laptop:~$ host -t mx emiratesbank.com ns4.emiratesbank.com Using domain server: Name: ns4.emiratesbank.com Address: 194.170.11.22#53 Aliases: emiratesbank.com mail is handled by 10 cust2443-2.in.mailcontrol.com. emiratesbank.com mail is handled by 10 cust2443-1.in.mailcontrol.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
