On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:03:16AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | | $ host -t mx tacocat.net | | | | This is a problem. You have no A *and* no MX records for your domain. | | RoadRunner's smtp servers are rejecting any mails whose return address | | has a domain that can't be contacted. If their server did accept the | | mail, and then had to bounce it for some reason (eg the recipient is | | over their quota), they would be stuck with an undeliverable bounce | | message.
| hmmm... Good point.
| I wonder then, how I'm supposed to create an MX / A record in dyndns.org.
| They provide a form for it, and if I do
| dig @ns1.mydyndns.org -MX tacocat.net
| it comes up OK as janus.tacocat.net
| but you say it doesn't. I wonder what the problem is.
Timing maybe? Now I see the MX :
$ host -t mx tacocat.net
tacocat.net mail is handled by 10 janus.tacocat.net.
Are you still getting that error now?
HTH,
-D
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