You need a SOA record and NS records. Are you running NT DNS?
Walt
At 02:02 AM 11/4/99 GMT, you wrote:
>Yes. looks like DNS was the problem but I was unable to fix it.
>Finally it worked with the following change.
>I changed my MX record to reflect the IP address as opposed to
>the FQDN.
>May be some expert can suggest what should ideally be there in DNS?
>
>I have following entries on the right panel of DNS server:
>jhopri.com A 209.9.223.110
>jhopri.com MX [10] jhopri.com
>mail A 209.9.223.67
>mail MX [10] mail.jhopri.com
>www A 209.9.223.110
>thank you
>
>Adesh
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: "Vaughn Thurman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Alias for Mail host
>Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:21:59 -0500
>
>Still sounds like a DNS problem. Check the A record that the MX record
>"@domain.com" is pointing to, check for spaces, typos, etc... also look for
>other MX records with lower priority in you DNS table. If putting the A
>record for domain.com in as you described fixes the problem, then there is
>something fishy in your DNS I am sure. Perhaps a bigger DNeSpert will offer
>some advice. What is the domain name? perhaps we can look and offer
>suggestions.
>-V
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Adesh & Sudha Jain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 5:04 PM
>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Alias for Mail host
>
>
> > Yes I do.
> > I have MX records for both domain.com and mail.domain.com
> >
> > The only way I can make it work if I have an A record for domain.com
> > pointing it to mail server. BUT in that case I loose my A record for the
> > actual web site where people can directly go to http://domain.com web
>site.
> >
> > Please help.
> >
> > Adesh
> >
> >
> > ----Original Message Follows----
> > From: "Vaughn Thurman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Alias for Mail host
> > Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 15:25:29 -0500
> >
> > Are your DNS MX records set up for domain.com or just mail.domain.com?
> > -V
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Adesh & Sudha Jain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 12:15 PM
> > Subject: [IMail Forum] Alias for Mail host
> >
> >
> > > We can not send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but can send to
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > I have setup an alias for the mail host using Imail Admin where
> > > my official host name is mail.domain.com and
> > > the alias is domain.com.
> > >
> > > Do I have to perform any extra step also?
> > >
> > > Your help is greatly appreciated.
> > > Thank you
> > > Adesh
> > >
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