Re: Mail not getting thru the domain

Very nicely done Ace. Obviously you've done some work to get all those
acronyms after your name :-)

I wonder why Justin would have to host his own DNS servers? I would have
expected that his registrar would use their DNS servers to host the A and MX
records for his domain. I may be mistaken and maybe the domain has to be
hosted for it to have DNS servers to be authoratitive for his domain.

Also, I happen to notice your an MCT. *bows head* Would you mind taking a
look at my post here
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.server.dns&mid=28ceaf91-57e8-4acb-9df8-a568708d8f3d

I can understand what the idea is and am sure I can get past the exam
without knowing it properly, but it's tearing me up inside!

Cheers.

Tippy.

"Ace Fekay [MVP]" wrote:

> In 56c8d6e358cbc@uwe">news:56c8d6e358cbc@uwe,
> Justin via WinServerKB.com <u15424@uwe> made this post, which I then
> commented about below:
> > Sorry I Meant to explain what "telling you" When I go to
> > www.dnsstuff.com and then click on dns reports I get this
> >
> > Getting MX record for thejmjenkinsfamily.org (from local DNS server,
> > may be cached)... There is no MX record for thejmjenkinsfamily.org!
> > That's bad. Checking for an A record... There is no A record for
> > thejmjenkinsfamily.org either!
> >
> > That's very bad. No mail can be sent to thejmjenkinsfamily.org.
> >
> > I will have to make sure that the host name is pointing at the IP of
> > the router.
> >
> > Thanks for your help Tippy. I will have to do better at looking when
> > I do a Google search.
>
> Justin,
>
> When I tested the thejmjenkinsfamily.org zone for your MX record, there is
> none. I am assuming YOU are hosting your "thejmjenkinsfamily.org zone" on
> the Internet and assume that these two servers are the SOAs:
> worf.thejmjenkinsfamily.org internet address = 207.173.211.134
> bridge.thejmjenkinsfamily.org internet address = 207.173.211.133
>
> So I thought to try querying them directly, the .134 one timed out on the
> query. The .133 didn't time out, but what is disturbing is you are MIXING
> private and public data on that server. You CANNOT mix this stuff. Look what
> I got when I queried for mail.thejmjenkinsfamily.org:
>
> Addresses: 207.173.211.133, 192.168.15.254
>
> If my mail server were to send you mail and it resolved (provided the MX
> record was working), to 192.168.15.254, you will NEVER receive the mail.
> Make sense?
>
> If you need internal private IP resolution, then you MUST have separate DNS
> servers for this purpose and leave the other two to ONLY host public records
> if you want to make this work.
>
> I then tried to query .133 for the MX record, but it appears you did not
> create an MX record. TO create an MX record, rt-click your zonename, select
> New, Mail Exchanger, leave the top box blank, in the target host box, type
> in mail.thejmjenkinsfamily.org.
>
> As for reverse records, since the ISP owns the IP block, and as Tippy
> mentioned, you need to contact them about creating a reverse record for your
> mail server's MX record.
>
> I hope this all makes sense.
>
> --
> Ace
>
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>
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> Therefore, please direct all replies ONLY to the Microsoft public newsgroup
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>
> Ace Fekay, MCSE 2003 & 2000, MCSA 2003 & 2000, MCSE+I, MCT, MVP
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Directory Services
> Microsoft Certified Trainer
> Infinite Diversities in Infinite Combinations.
> =================================
>
>
>
.

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