Hi Kala
This is how my DNS entries looks like.
(203.197.150.52)
name type data
iisim.ac.in NS serv.iisim.ac.in.
iisim.ac.in SOA serv.iisim.ac.in.,
administrator.iisim.ac.in.
iisim.ac.in MX (10) lin.iisim.ac.in
iisim.ac.in MX (9) mail.iisim.ac.in
lin A 203.197.150.51
localhost A 127.0.0.1
serv A 203.197.150.52
of course i have a reverse lookup zone
150.197.203.in-addr.arpa
kindly see if this ok.
thank you. regards
charles
--- Babu Kalakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles,
>
> > resolv.conf says
> >
> > search iisim.ac.in
> > nameserver 203.197.150.52
> > nameserver 203.197.150.140
> > nameserver 202.54.6.1
> >
> > 203.197.150.52 is my DNS. rest is vsnl's.
>
> Your DNS doesn't seem to be setup properly. I
> noticed the following problems
> while using nslookup using your server
> (203.197.150.52)
>
> 1) No MX records are defined for your domain. So
> even if someone finds
> a way to your domain's nameserver (i.e your server
> if you plan to set
> it up that way), they wouldn't know where to send
> mails to.
>
> 2) Access to root servers don't seem to be defined
> properly. I couldn't
> lookup any other hostnames (other than the ones in
> your domain) using
> your nameserver. Put in an entry forwarding queries
> that you can't
> resolve to your ISP's name server (or set up your
> zone "." entries
> properly). Refer to the DNS Howto for details.
>
> > i had my domain registered when we took the vsnl
> > connection. i was making double sure since vsnl
> > service are not reliable.
>
> Looks like vsnl hasn't yet put in proper entries for
> your domain into
> their nameserver databases. None of vsnl's
> nameservers can resolve your
> domain by name (or reverse lookup your IP address).
>
> >
> > thanks once again. my DNS seems to work. When I
> had
> > the connection with Ernet (vsat 9.6kbps), then i
> had
> > redhat ver. 5. i never had a problem with the DNS.
> I
> > get mail going out and receive incoming mail
> pretty
> > well. its the same DNS i use now. the only thing
> that
> > have changed is the redhat version to 6.1.
> >
>
> Your DNS setup might have been working earlier
> because the Ernet
> nameservers you were using had proper entries for MX
> for your domain.
> (And also external lookups which failed on your own
> nameserver were
> probably located succesfully using their nameservers
> which you had
> specified in your resolv.conf file)
>
> So I guess what you need to do is :
>
> 1) Review your DNS setup (Refer the HOW-TO) and make
> sure you have all
> the proper entries (MX & forward or zone ".") in it.
>
> 2) Scream at the vsnl guys (if they did the domain
> registration for
> you - or else catch the guys who did the domain
> registration) and tell them
> to make sure that proper entries are put into
> authoritative servers which
> service the domain "ac.in."
>
> Kala
>
>
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