Felix: Using Don's stylish little DNS checker at: http://www.checkdomain.nz.net/checkdomain.cgi?domain=fisherfunds.co.nz&submit=Query You'll observe that your MX records point to a CNAME: $ mx fisherfunds.co.nz fisherfunds.co.nz MX 20 mx2.xtra.co.nz !!! fisherfunds.co.nz MX host mx2.xtra.co.nz is not canonical fisherfunds.co.nz MX 10 mx1.xtra.co.nz !!! fisherfunds.co.nz MX host mx1.xtra.co.nz is not canonical $ host mx1.xtra.co.nz mx1.xtra.co.nz CNAME mta.xtra.co.nz mta.xtra.co.nz A 203.96.92.132 $ host mx2.xtra.co.nz mx2.xtra.co.nz CNAME mta.xtra.co.nz mta.xtra.co.nz A 203.96.92.132 This may or may not be the problem - it's disallowed in RFC 1912, but http://www.visi.com/~barr/rfc1912-errors.html suggests that it should generally be OK. Either way, it might be worthwhile having a word in the ear of Xtra and suggesting that they replace the CNAME's with A records. ( you could also wonder why they put in two MX's in your domain and then point them to the same IP, but presumably that's a transitory thing, maybe mx1.xtra and mx2.xtra sometimes point at different IP's ). Cheers Si On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 06:22:59AM +0000, zapf11(a)ihug.co.nz said:
Hi All,
Have always been reading but never posted. Have this problem here with resolving the mail record for fisherfunds.co.nz . Tkns for any assistance in advance.
I have this mail server at clients connecting via Xtra ADSL network using their default DNS servers (202.27.184.3 / 202.27.184.5) to resolve a mail record. Have tried� �mail / smtp / mx @fisherfunds.co.nz� without any luck.
I know that fisherfunds.co.nz is hosted on Xtra and uses Xtra�s mail servers. As I can successfully send mail to fisherfunds.co.nz from Orcon internet.
So to sum it up my mail server and the target domain is both on Xtra�s network, but my mail server can�t resolve their Mail record to deliver mail. How does other people E.g Orcon get the mail delivered? What is not working?
Thanks Felix
Ultra Tech Ltd
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