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  1. #1
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    No MX or A records for ...

    Hello

    I am suddenly having a problem sending or receiving mail to yahoo adresses. I am guessing they changed something in their configuration that causes my sending domain not to be recognized. Now when I send mail I get errors like:

    No MX or A records for blahblah.com

    or

    Domain of sender address jk@blahblah.com does not resolve

    ----
    I do have an MX entry in the DNS record:

    $TTL 86400


    @ IN SOA www.blahblah.com. root.www.blahblah.com. (
    2003070701 ; Serial
    28800 ; Refresh
    14400 ; Retry
    3600000 ; Expire
    86400 ) ; Minimum
    ;
    ; Name Servers
    ;
    IN NS www.blahblah.com.

    ;
    ; Mail Exchangers
    ;
    blahblah.com. IN MX 0 www.blahblah.com.


    Can someone please tell me why I might be getting these errors?

    Thanks!
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    (1) Is the blahblah.com nameserver set up to recognize your machine as the authority for the www domain? If not, no requests will ever get forwarded to you for <anything>.www.blahblah.com; the blahblah.com nameserver will attempt to resolve them itself.

    (2) Your SOA is for www.blahblah.com, but your MX record is for a name outside your domain (just blahblah.com). I believe all names you try to resolve have to be inside your domain...

    I assume the errors that you quoted are being sent back to you in the bounce messages, right?

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    Try checking the DNS records from somewhere like http://www.network-tools.com and see if they match up with what you have, and do a whois to make sure your domain isn't expired or locked.
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    It is not expired or locked.

    Most of my email goes through ok. Yahoo is giving what they call a "soft bounce".

    I looked up my domain on http://www.network-tools.com and it looks fine (I think). Should there be an MX entry in this?

    [66.46.181.133] returned a non-authoritative response in 78 ms: Answer records
    name class type data time to live
    kingnet.us IN NS ns4.blahblah.com 7200s (2h)
    kingnet.us IN NS ns5.blahblah.com 7200s (2h)
    Authority records
    [none]
    Additional records
    [none]


    Whois is fine too.

    Thanks
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    Yeah, there technically should be an MX record there, but if you don't have one mail just goes to the A record. I'm assuming the A record showed up and you just didn't include it here? If not then obviously there's a problem...
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    I think that's part of the problem, but I do have an MX line set up in the DNS record (see orginal post). Why doesn't it show?
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    I know you don't want to post the real domain name here, but if you don't mind PM'ing it to me, I'll see if I can make some more suggestions. I'll keep that info private.
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    That's ok, I don't think it matters too much.

    The domain is kingnet.us. I am hosting some ither domains on the same box and think they all have the same problem. squawktalk.com and ebzb.com are some others.

    Thanks for the help!
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    ...and the nameserver is the same box as well. is is actually ns4.fourkings.com. (ns5 doesn't actually exist).
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    Aha! I think that's the problem. With nameservers, I don't think the 2nd server works as a failover server, it propogates what it has just like the primary server. I saw MX and A records for kingnet.us and squawktalk.com, but couldn't see jack for ebzb.com on internet-tools.com. Guess which time network-tools was using ns5?

    You might need to get something legit there for ns5...I'm not totally sure though. Does netsol let you set up a domain with just one nameserver, or do they force you to have 2?
    - Andy

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