Len,
I am actually talking about the domain "pcstrading.com".
I just made some changes to my SOA entries. Here are the ettings:
Refresh Rate: 3600 Seconds
Retry Rate: 7200 Seconds
Expire Time: 604800 Seconds
Time To Live: 3600 Seconds
Should I make any changes or is my stack connect fail a different problem?
Thanks
Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Stack connect fail
>
> >Could someone explain exactly why IMAIL has trouble sending email to
> >major mail providers at times. My smtp fails all the time and must
> >resort to sending through my default mail host.
> >
> >I just set up my IMAIL server about 12 hours ago and my reverse DNS
lookup
> >has not yet propagated to all DNS servers.
>
> there's no such thing as "propagation".
>
> >Is this why? Should I be patient and wait for reverse DNS to propagate?
>
> It ain't going to happen. If a DNS client queries your DNS, it
> queries your DNS NOW! there's no propagation delay.
>
> >Is there a setting I can check to make sure this is my problem? Many
> >domains work, but the big ones seem to reject the most:
> >
> >i.e. @home.com, @yahoo.com, etc..
> >
> >When I do an nslookup for my ip from the @home DNS servers, they are
still
> >showing the old entry.
>
> that's not propagation, that's TTL delay where your old records in
> their caches have not yet expired. if you're talking about futuretrade:
>
> # dig futuretrade.com mx
>
> ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> futuretrade.com mx
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 4
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;; futuretrade.com, type = MX, class = IN
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> futuretrade.com. 1D IN MX 60 mh2.cts.com.
> futuretrade.com. 1D IN MX 50 mail.futuretrade.com.
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> futuretrade.com. 1D IN NS ns.cts.com.
> futuretrade.com. 1D IN NS news.cts.com.
>
>
> there is currently a 1Day TTL. So if caching is your pb, then 1Day
> is the max it will require before all the old records expire.
>
> Use dig to query the other NS's and see how much is left. My
> nameserver shows this now based on the query I made about 3 minutes
> ago to your NS:
>
> # dig futuretrade.com mx
>
> ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> futuretrade.com mx
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;; futuretrade.com, type = MX, class = IN
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> futuretrade.com. 23h57m28s IN MX 50 mail.futuretrade.com.
> futuretrade.com. 23h57m28s IN MX 60 mh2.cts.com.
>
> see, no more 1Day, but "23h57m28s".
>
> look here:
>
> # dig +norec @ns1.home.net futuretrade.com any
>
> ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> +norec @ns1.home.net futuretrade.com any
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28831
> ;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;; futuretrade.com, type = ANY, class = IN
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> futuretrade.com. 5h31m8s IN NS NEWS.CTS.COM.
> futuretrade.com. 5h31m8s IN NS NS.CTS.COM.
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> futuretrade.com. 5h31m8s IN NS NEWS.CTS.COM.
> futuretrade.com. 5h31m8s IN NS NS.CTS.COM.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> NEWS.CTS.COM. 2h20m36s IN A 192.188.72.21
> NS.CTS.COM. 1h34m43s IN A 192.188.72.18
>
>
> See the TTL times being less than 1Day ? That's how much longer your
> records will live in the ns1.home.net cache.
>
> btw, I doubt this has anyting to do with "MX connect fail". Have you
> tried to telnet to those ip's that your Imail can't connnect to?
>
> Len
>
>
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