I you PROMISE not to ask me why this is set up this way (as if I could remember), I'll share a zone file with an MX at the Root, and a different MX in a subdomain (if memory serves, the reason they made me do this was stupid - even in the 1990's).
Dan C:\>nslookup Default Server: server.visioncomm.net Address: 172.27.0.2 > set q=mx > cancer.org Server: server.visioncomm.net Address: 172.27.0.2 cancer.org MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.cancer.org mail.cancer.org internet address = 12.168.24.152 > email.cancer.org Server: server.visioncomm.net Address: 172.27.0.2 Non-authoritative answer: email.cancer.org MX preference = 30, mail exchanger = 209.135.47.171 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shaun Mickey Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 2:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: mx record is there, yet isn't Ben, Sorry but that is what you are going to see. When you create an mx record for mail.salemradiology.com your not going to have an mx record on salemradiology.com. Think of mail.salemradiology.com as a complete other domain. Dnsreports.com is looking for an mx record on salemradiology.com but there is none, it isn't going to recursivly look for mx's on every subdomain there is, there could possibly be an infinate number. If you want to see your mx record show up somewhere, run a dig command, you will see your mysterious mx record show up when you run "dig mail.salemradiology.com mx" and it will dissapear when you run "dig salemradiology.com mx" Here's the dig output for both: Dig for salemradiology.com (notice no mx record is returned) ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: salemradiology.com. 2h1m43s IN SOA bcw4.bcwebhost.net. admin.bcwebhost.net. ( 10 ; serial 6H ; refresh 1H ; retry 4W ; expiry 12H ) ; minimum Dig for mail.salemradiology.com (notice mx record is returned) ;; ANSWER SECTION: mail.salemradiology.com. 11h52s IN MX 10 smtpgw.slmdc.pnwtg.com. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: salemradiology.com. 31S IN NS dns2.bcwebhost.net. salemradiology.com. 31S IN NS bcw4.bcwebhost.net. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: smtpgw.slmdc.pnwtg.com. 23h56s IN A 66.224.124.100 dns2.bcwebhost.net. 10h47m54s IN A 67.133.60.19 bcw4.bcwebhost.net. 10h47m54s IN A 66.224.41.3 Hope this helps, Shaun ---------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Mickey 270net Technologies Phone: 301.865.9370 Fax: 301.865.9883 www.270net.com "Internet/Technology Solutions for Business and Government" ---------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of IMail Admin Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 2:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT: mx record is there, yet isn't You (and Andy, who makes the same point) are correct. However, that doesn't solve the problem. They told us to point mail.salemradiology.com to this other server, so that's what we did. If it forces them to write out [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's their choice. Either way, however, dnsreport.com should have seen that there is *some* mx record. Why doesn't it see this mx record? Thanks, Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaun Mickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 10:59 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: mx record is there, yet isn't You have setup your mx record on the mail.salemradiology.com domain. You would be routing mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] You should use the base domain when setting up mx records... Instead of: mail.salemradiology.com. 12H IN MX 10 smtpgw.slmdc.pnwtg.com. Use: salemradiology.com. 12H IN MX 10 smtpgw.slmdc.pnwtg.com. Hope this helps. Thanks, Shaun ---------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Mickey 270net Technologies Phone: 301.865.9370 Fax: 301.865.9883 www.270net.com "Internet/Technology Solutions for Business and Government" ---------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of IMail Admin Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 1:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IMail Forum] OT: mx record is there, yet isn't Hi, We have a strange problem, that's slightly off-topic. Although we normally host our own email domains, we have a few domains where they do it themselves and we just set the MX record pointing to them. The problem we have right now is one domain that has an MX record, and yet somehow that record isn't seen. I'm sure it's just my confusion, so could someone straighten me out. The domain name is salemradiology.com, and the host name mail.salemradiology.com has an MX record that points to smtpgw.slmdc.pnwtg.com. You can confirm this by going to dnsstuff.com and explicitly checking for the MX record for this host name. However, if you go to dnsreport.com for the domain name, it will tell you that it cannot find an MX record. So what am I missing? 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