topic mx record issue in Operating System - Linux

mx record issue

Andrew medhurst1 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:10:20 GMT

Guys Help
i have a new DNS enviroment scheduled to become authoratative on friday but for some reason the MX records will not resolve.
i try typing NSLOOKUP set type=mx and then (company).com and get cant find (company) no answer.
i cannot see problem, any help will be rewarded.

Re: mx record issue

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:23:30 GMT

Andrew,

Did you point "nslookup" to your DNS server?

Try this "host" command:

>host -t mx example.com your_dns_server_IP

BTW, do you have resolution for other records?

Re: mx record issue

Andrew medhurst1 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:26:55 GMT

running this on the DNS server itself and it fails and yes other records seem to work fine.
i have also run from network by stating nameserver and i get exactly the same results ???!!!.
i cannot see the issue.
regards
andrew

Re: mx record issue

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:40:16 GMT

Configure your MX records just below NS recors, and remove the first column, it should look like:

IN MX 10 idc-smtp1-example
IN MX 20 idc-smtp2-example

Re: mx record issue

Andrew medhurst1 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:55:05 GMT

thanks for the reply but i found the issue just before your post but you were right with your response.
thanks all who responded.
regards
Andrew