On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:52:45AM -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: > > I set up bind9 on an Ubuntu box several weeks ago. Now, email on two > > Ubuntu machines is broken. I get, e.g. > > > > Dec 17 09:50:58 phoenix postfix/smtp[436]: 08D2A16A0E4: > > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, orig_to=<root>, relay=none, delay=8152, > > delays=8142/0.01/10/0, dsn=4.4.3, status=deferred (Host or domain > > name not found. Name service error for name=charlesc type=A: Host not > > found, try again) > > This should work once "dig mx charlesc" works on 192.168.1.3. Postfix > looks first for an MX record rather than an A record.
It does? I've never had an MX record before. And failing an MX record, shouldn't it then try for an A record? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dig mx charlesc ; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> mx charlesc ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 50271 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;charlesc. IN MX ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: . 2152 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2007121700 1800 900 604800 86400 ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.47#53(192.168.1.47) ;; WHEN: Mon Dec 17 12:15:31 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 101 > > Does "dig mx charlesc.localdomain" work? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dig mx charlesc.localdomain ; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> mx charlesc.localdomain ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 47276 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;charlesc.localdomain. IN MX ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: localdomain. 86400 IN SOA localdomain. hostmaster.localdomain. 2007120702 28800 7200 604800 86400 ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.47#53(192.168.1.47) ;; WHEN: Mon Dec 17 12:14:29 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 85 -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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