Hi Jim
Your DNS is rather severely broken, and needs attention:
The reverse record "25.6.144.209.in-addr.arpa." refers to
"pm2-9.cowtown.net.", but it should refer to "pm2-l9.cowtown.net.".
There is no PTR record available for the host
"members.cowtown.net." which has the IP address 209.144.6.119.
There is no PTR record available for the host "mail.cowtown.net."
which has the IP address 209.144.6.178.
The name server with the IP address 209.144.6.2 is identified by
the name "cowtown.net." in the SOA record but the NS record uses
the name "alpha.alphatx.com." for the host.
The value 604800 of the TTL field in the SOA record is unusually
high. The value for this field should be within the range 3600 -
172800.
The value 604800 of the Minimum field in the SOA record is
unusually high. The value for this field should be within the
range 3600 - 172800.
The CNAME record "news.cowtown.net." points to
"n8.supernews.com.", which is also a CNAME record.
The reverse domain contains more than one PTR record for the IP
Address 209.144.6.2
The reverse domain contains more than one PTR record for the IP
Address 209.144.6.3
The reverse domain contains more than one PTR record for the IP
Address 209.144.6.120
/wiZZ
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Imail List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 19 October 1999 02:55
Subject: [IMail Forum] DNS Woes
> very little email in from the net. We changed our
> ip address for mail.cowtown.net from 209.144.6.2
> to 209.144.6.178 and I figured that it would take
> 24 hours or so for the DNS records to filter out
> across the net. It has been 21 hours and a very
> miniscule amount of email is coming in. Can anyone
> see our mail server? Any advise on what we should
> do? Here is the DNS entries I have setup for our
> mail server:
> -------------------------------------
> @ IN SOA cowtown.net.
> postmaster.cowtown.net. (
> 1999101899 ; Serial number
> 86400 ; Refresh Every day
> 3600 ; Retry 1 hour
> 3600000 ; Expire 42 days
> 604800 ; Time-To-Live 1 week
> )
> IN NS alpha.alphatx.com.
> IN NS ns1.stl-online.net.
> IN NS ns3.cowtown.net.
> IN MX 10 mail.cowtown.net.
>
> with a line following of:
> mail IN A 209.144.6.178
> --------------------------------------
> Followed in our reverse zone file with:
>
> 178 IN PTR cowtown.net.
> 178 IN PTR mail.cowtown.net.
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