Try putting
@ IN A your_ip
in your DNS Entries.
Check with 'nslookup your_ip' and 'nslookup your_hostname'
Baiju Mathew.
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----- Original Message -----
From: charles pinheiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: [LI] sendmail problem
> 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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