Yes, DUN is screwed up in that it will only check the secondary if
it can not contact the primary. I have had this if I simply shut down
the DNS service it still will not roll to the secondary because it does
receive a response of some kind from the server.
You will definitely need to get your DNS working or have your
clients switch. Are you providing the dial up service for them also?
We do this in our Max products by setting the DNS there and having
the client set their DUN to server assigned DNS. This way I can
make changes without having to tell a couple of thousand folks how
to change their DNS settings.
Dusty
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan from Tigerlink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] DNS PROBLEMS??
my clients are now having trouble going to web sites...errors such as
"cannnot find abc.com" are common.. In their dial up networking settings,
they have me as primary dns (which isnt working) and pbi as secondary which
is working.. because I am primary, is that causing problems????
-----Original Message-----
From: Vaughn Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, June 19, 1999 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] DNS PROBLEMS??
>Dan,
>
>*Important tip at end of note*
>
> I think everyone is trying to help you with something that you do need
>to fix, eventually. Right now though you need to be able to send mail OUT.
>It really is important that you see if you can get the correct info on the
>mail servers you are trying to reach. Someone has already suggested this,
>but I am going to re-re-re suggest that you use nslookup to test your
>ability to resolve names of hosts you are sending to...
>
>[instructions to use nslookup to test]
>go to a dos box (on NT)
>type "nslookup" (without quotes)
>[right away you should get a report of what DNS server you are using]
>type "set type=mx" (without quotes)
>type "aol.com" (without quotes)
>[copy output and mail to me or list]
>
>who is your upstream ISP?
>what DNS servers do you have specified in IMAIL? (you would find this in
>the "IMAIL server" applet from the Windows NT Control Panel... It will be
on
>the "SMTP" tab. There can be more than one IP there separated by a space)
>
>Your DNS entries for Tigerlink need some work too, but this should be
first,
>get your mail flowing out again, then get the inbound flowing right...
That
>is what your customers are complaining about so let's get that done first.
>***** Also on the "SMTP" tab there are two places where you can set the
>number of tries to send mail, and the time between tries, set these much
>higher right away (temporary) so that mail does not continue to go back to
>your users, this will buy you some time.
>***************************************
>e-mail me the results of your test!
>-V
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Dan from Tigerlink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 8:12 PM
>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] DNS PROBLEMS??
>
>
>> do my DNS records look ok now
>>
>> >>
>> >>> here are my dns records for my domain.. My emails are stuck in the
Q
>> >and
>> >>> wont leave..delivery is failing. any ideas???? dan
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> tigerlink.net A 206.170.199.5
>> tigerlink.net NS dns.tigerlink.net
>> tigerlink.net NS ns1.pbi.net
>> tigerlink.net SOA dns.tigerlink.net,
>> administrator.tigerlink.net
>>
>> tigerlink.net MX (10) tigerlink.net
>> tigerlink.net MX (20) mail.tigerlink.net
>> dns CNAME tigerlink.net
>> www. A 206.170.199.22
>>
>>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
