RE: [cobalt-users] Email problems - Can send, can't receive...

["Dee Dreslough" <dee@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At first, this was a cause of the email server not accepting me at all. I
figured that out and added my home computer's IP...That made it so it
stopped kicking me out of the mail server and would try to send my mail.

But, then I got the recursive email error. Turns out that's probably a
problem with teh fact that the true DNS records for dimar.org, which were
recently updated, haven't propogated out to all the DNS servers yet. The old
record had just 'mail' listed as my mail server, so any mail server trying
to email me would resolve to itself and send the email to itself a million
times...

Once the record updates (it has on a few DNSs), the mail goes through fine,
though.

FYI: For folks having this problem, if you want to see what the DNS records
look like on a particular Name Server, you can use nslookup.  For instance,
for me to see what the nameserver at Annex.Com looks like, I type this from
my telnet account.

nslookup -query=MX dimar.org ns1.annex.com
The format is:
nslookup -query=MX <your domain> <the nameserver>

This will have that DNS server send back a nice message telling me what it
thinks my source of authority (ie: official nameserver) for my site is, and
what the mail server is, etc.

You can skip including the -query tag and it'll just tell you what that
other Nameserver thinks your official nameserver is.

-Dee Dreslough (dee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Brett
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 11:42 AM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Email problems - Can send, can't receive...
>
>
> Are you using a dialup ISP to account to send the emails.  If so then your
> box may not be set-up to accept the relay.  I get the same response when
> trying to send from my ISP and have not had time to make the correct
> changes
> to my box.  If you are using a RaQ3 then check out page 51 in your manual.
> It will explain the solution.
>
>
>
> >> Your DNS settings should work.  Is the primary DNS for dimar.org hosted
> on
> >> the same server?  Is DNS running?  Did you recently switch IPs
> or change
> >> your name servers?
> >> Sounds like DNS isn't visible to the outside world.  A whois lookup
> >> indicates that your primary and secondary DNS are Network
> Solutions name
> >> servers.  Have you asked them to update your DNS?  If you
> *think* you are
> >> running your own DNS, I think you are mistaken and need to talk to
> Network
> >> Solutions (aka Verisign).
> >
> >It is running, and the name change was indeed very recent.  I
> guess it just
> >hasn't propogated out to all the servers...!
> >
> >Thanks for pointing out that Whois at NetworkSolutions still had
> it as the
> >old nameserver...since www.dimar.org game up from my home system, I just
> >assumed the changes had gone through.
> >
> >I hope this is the problem.
> >
> >> The URL for the archives is at the bottom of every email on this list.
> If
> >> you spend a few seconds exploring the page you'll see a "search" button
> in
> >> the middle of the screen and a place to enter some search criteria just
> to
> >> the left of it.
> >
> >hehe..Yeah..I found it right after I'd sent the note. I'm a little
> >overwhelmed trying to get this box up ASAP so I'm missed it.
> >Thanks for your help!
> >
> >-Dee Dreslough
> >
> >
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