Re: [TCLUG:21021] dns mx question

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ben Luey wrote:
> I currently have in my domain.hosts:
> 
> @               IN SOA        hearing.org. server.hearing.org.  (
>                               1997080600    ; serial number
>                               10800         ; refresh rate (3 hours)
>                               1800          ; retry (30 minutes)
>                               1209600       ;  expire (2 weeks)
>                               604800 )      ;  minium (1 week)
>                 MX 5       server.hearing.org.
>                 NS         server.hearing.org.
> #                NS         hearing.org.
> hearingsociety.org.    MX 3 server.hearing.org.
> server          A          192.168.1.1
> finance          A          192.168.1.211
> 
> giving hearingsociety.org a MX record; however, since in /etc/named.conf,
> domain.hosts is only in the zone for hearing.org 
> 
> zone "hearing.org" {
>         type master;
>         file "domain.hosts";
> };

Check your /var/log/messages; it should be complaining that
hearingsociety.org is outside of the hearing.org zone.. are you sure it's
actually working?

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