j maccraw, Does this mean that Thane is running his own DNS server (local)? I would think that I would not have this level of access to a DNS server (OpenDNS or Bellsouth). Best, Duncan
At 16:02 11/02/2007 -0700, you wrote:
Simple- make sure you have root access to the authoritative DNS servers and your zone files will never be wrong unless you make a fubar! dnsstuff.com's dnsreport seems to give great info. Thane Sherrington wrote: > I'm seeing more small companies hosting their own domain (or getting it > hosted outside their ISP) and more and more of them run into problems > sending or recieving mail. Sometimes the mail gets blocked as spam, > other times it appears to go into the bit bucket. I know that some > hosting companies don't correctly setup DNS information, and I was > wondering if the gurus on the collective know of a way I can check the > configuration for a domain and see if it's set correctly (I've looked a > services such as www.dnswatch.info). If anyone has some advice on this, > I'd really appreciate it, because the hosting companies all take the > same "it's not our problem" line, and I'm not knowledgable enough ask > the right questions. > > T > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
