alright, this is what I got form dig www.xploited.ca MX
; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> www.xploited.ca MX ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.xploited.ca. IN MX ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: xploited.ca. 7171 IN SOA ns16.zoneedit.com. soacontact.zoneedit.com. 1109230065 14400 7200 950400 7200 ;; Query time: 62 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1) ;; WHEN: Tue Jul 05 21:48:32 2005 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 97 and here it is just dig www.xploited.ca ; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> www.xploited.ca ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.xploited.ca. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.xploited.ca. 300 IN A 142.177.224.149 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: xploited.ca. 3701 IN NS ns13.zoneedit.com. xploited.ca. 3701 IN NS ns16.zoneedit.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns16.zoneedit.com. 649 IN A 216.110.187.226 ;; Query time: 140 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1) ;; WHEN: Tue Jul 05 21:49:54 2005 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 115 Let me know what you think!! Thanks Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 9:23 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Home mail server problems. > > > On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Scott Llewellyn wrote: > > > I recently purchsed my own domain and have been meaning to set up my own > > person email servers. I use zoneedit for my dns, and from what I understand > > you can set up mail through them as well. > > > > i decided to try to set it up today and i have almost finished, but im > > having problem with one thing. I followed the Home Email system tutorial on > > gentoo-wiki.com and I've managed to get outgoing email working fine. I can > > send to any address from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and all the headers do seem > > proper. What I can't do is send back to that email address from other email > > address, eg a hotmail account. It doesn't bounce back, it just is never > > recieved. > > > > I can connect to the server over imap and smtp on my internal network as > > well. I do have a firewall in front and I have not opened any email ports > > (25 and imaps), but I tried sending from one internal user to another, and > > that didn't work either. As well, there are no logs of blocked requests on > > thoes ports. > > > > I'm not very experience with this accpect of networking. I've set up web > > servers before, but never and email server and I don't even know where to > > look for problems. > > > > > > If anyone requires any config information please let me know, but I did > > follow that tutorial very closly. > > > > > > I did not setup fetchmail, but from what I could tell that was only user for > > recieving emails from external servers, eg your isps email. > > When I did this, I found setting up my mx records very tricky. Can you > post the output from dig? It might point out suspicious settings. > > Michael > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
