Re: DNS Help

> Hi Russell,
>
> Can you please issue host -t mx ftae.com on your qmail server?  I tried on
> my server.  mx for ftae.com seems ok.
> You may have a problem with your dns server defined in /etc/resolv.conf?
>
> $ host -t mx ftae.com
> ftae.com mail is handled by 10 mail.ftae.com.

>
> --
> Ismail YENIGUL
> Endersys Ltd. Proje Yoneticisi / Project Manager
>
> Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 6:39:14 AM, you wrote:
>

Ismail,

Thank you for looking at this.

host -t mx ftae.com
ftae.com mail is handled by 10 mail.ftae.com.

Maybe it was my resolver...

cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain cttechhosting.net
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
#nameserver 127.0.0.1
#nameserver 216.187.125.130
#nameserver 216.187.125.131
options rotate timeout:5

I have removed the commented out entries so it looks like this

cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain cttechhosting.net
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
options rotate timeout:5

A new mail to ftae.com went through.

Thanks again.

Russ

>> My Qmail is not happy with the domain: ftae.com And I was hoping that
>> someone on the list can help me identify. I've been running qmail for
>> years with few issues. Here is what I see in the logs:
>
>> Mar  7 21:34:59 mail qmail: 1299551699.837829 starting delivery 19: msg
>> 23365568 to remote [email protected]
>> Mar  7 21:34:59 mail qmail: 1299551699.837919 status: local 0/10 remote
>> 5/20
>> Mar  7 21:34:59 mail qmail: 1299551699.915753 delivery 19: failure:
>> Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_a_mail_exchanger_or_IP_address.
>> _(#5.4.4)/
>
>> Their DNS appears valid, but I'm no dns expert. I validated them with
>> this
>> site: http://www.dnsvalidation.com/ and it seemed ok. I tried dig, and
>> compared with my own server:
>
>> dig @208.67.222.222 Â +nocmd ftae.com any +multiline +noall +answer
>> ftae.com. Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  0 IN A Â 67.215.65.132
>> ftae.com. Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  3240 IN MX 10 mail.ftae.com.
>> ftae.com. Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  3240 IN NS ns1.paetec.net.
>> ftae.com. Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  3240 IN NS ns3.paetec.net.
>> ftae.com. Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  3240 IN NS ns2.paetec.net.
>
>
>> dig @ns1.paetec.net  +nocmd ftae.com any +multiline +noall +answer
>> ftae.com. Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  86400 IN SOA dns-master.paetec.net.
>> dns.paetec.net. (
>> Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  36 Â  Â  Â  Â  ; serial
>> Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  28800 Â  Â  Â ; refresh
>> (8 hours)
>> Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  14400 Â  Â  Â ; retry (4
>> hours)
>> Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  604800 Â  Â  ; expire (1
>> week)
>> Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  86400 Â  Â  Â ; minimum
>> (1 day)
>> Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  )
>> ftae.com. Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  3600 IN NS ns3.paetec.net.
>> ftae.com. Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  3600 IN NS ns2.paetec.net.
>> ftae.com. Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  3600 IN NS ns1.paetec.net.
>> ftae.com. Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  3600 IN MX 10 mail.ftae.com.
>
>> dig @ns1.paetec.net  +nocmd mail.ftae.com any +multiline +noall +answer
>> mail.ftae.com. Â  Â  Â  Â  Â 3600 IN A 74.10.239.236
>
>> dig @ns1.cttechhosting.net  +nocmd cttechhosting.net any +multiline
>> +noall
>> +answer
>> cttechhosting.net. Â  Â  Â 3600 IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx"
>> cttechhosting.net. Â  Â  Â 3600 IN A 66.135.59.179
>> cttechhosting.net. Â  Â  Â 3600 IN SOA ns1.cttechhosting.net.
>> webmaster.cttechhosting.net. (
>> Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  2009111206 ; serial
>> Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  3600 Â  Â  Â  ; refresh
>> (1 hour)
>> Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  120 Â  Â  Â  Â ; retry
>> (2 minutes)
>> Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  604800 Â  Â  ; expire (1
>> week)
>> Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  3600 Â  Â  Â  ; minimum
>> (1 hour)
>> Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  )
>> cttechhosting.net. Â  Â  Â 3600 IN NS ns1.cttechhosting.net.
>> cttechhosting.net. Â  Â  Â 3600 IN NS ns2.geodns.net.
>> cttechhosting.net. Â  Â  Â 3600 IN NS ns1.geodns.net.
>> cttechhosting.net. Â  Â  Â 3600 IN MX 1 mail.cttechhosting.net.
>
>> The biggest difference I see is their MX is set to 10 instead of 1 - is
>> it
>> possible that could be making qmail choke?
>
>> Thanks for any help,
>
>> Russ
>
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