[tail between my legs]
burned by my fat fingers again! fixed the type-o in my SOA
record and it worked great.
Thanks everyone for your responses. Very helpfull as usual.
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Willy De la Court wrote:
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> On Wednesday, April 25, 2001 23:40, mick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> wrote:
> > It resolves to an IP:
> > [root@ns2 log]# ping bogus.mtco.net
> > PING bogus.mtco.net (24.17.22.210): 56 octets data
>
> Here is a paste of the results i get
> > set type=mx
> > mtco.net
> Server: stargate.speedy.home
> Address: 192.168.1.253
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> mtco.net preference = 30, mail exchanger = ns2.mtco.com
> mtco.net preference = 20, mail exchanger = bogus.mtco.com
>
> Authoritative answers can be found from:
> mtco.net nameserver = ns2.mtco.com
> mtco.net nameserver = ns.mtco.com
> ns2.mtco.com internet address = 207.179.200.10
> ns.mtco.com internet address = 207.179.200.2
> > server 207.179.200.10
> Default Server: ns2.mtco.com
> Address: 207.179.200.10
>
> > set type=a
> > bogus.mtco.com
> Server: ns2.mtco.com
> Address: 207.179.200.10
>
> *** ns2.mtco.com can't find bogus.mtco.com: Non-existent host/domain
>
> so it seems there is a problem with your dns
> i can't seem to resolve the bogus.mtco.com
> hmm just noticed your pinging to bogus.mtco.net and not to
> bogus.mtco.com as in the mx record
>
>
> > An IP that is not going to respond.... To simulate a primary MX
> > going down. Which is the point of a backup MX server. If the
> > primary were responding and running smpt it wouldn't matter :)
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Willy De la Court wrote:
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> > > On Wednesday, April 25, 2001 22:30, mick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > wrote:
> > > > There is a bogus MX record setup for testing:
> > > > ;
> > > > ;MX Records for mtco.net
> > > > ;
> > > > mtco.net. IN MX 20 bogus.mtco.com.
> > > > mtco.net. IN MX 30 ns2.mtco.com.
> > > >
> > > > It points to a non-responsive IP address to simulate the
> > > > primary server going down.
> > > >
> > >
> > > that looks good but bogus.mtco.com does not resolve to an ip that
> > > maybe
> > > the problem the dns resolving of qmail probably disregards this
> > > hostname.
> > > try to add an a record so that bogus.mtco.com resolves to an ip
> > > of a machine
> > > that does run smtp
> > >
> > > Willy De la Court
> > > Quint NV
> > > http://www.quint.be/projects
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> > Mick Dobra
> > Systems Administrator
> > MTCO Communications
> > 1-800-859-6826
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