Re: [cobalt-users] Need some Zone Record/Mail Problem help here.

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Jason Gottschalk wrote:

> Hello cobalt-users,
>
>   This is complicated in my eyes, so I'll try to be complete.
>
>   I have several virtual accounts at 209.15.182.23
>
>   Some of these notes may not be relevant, I'll let you determine
>   that, I present them here in case they provide insight for you to
>   help diagnose my problem.
>
>   These are a couple of the accounts using the above IP as a virtual
>   server.
>
>   jasonandsarah.com
>   drcbrieden.com
>   heidebreicht.com
>
>   All mail sent to any virtual server at 209.15.182.23 has a header
>   that looks like this:
>         Received: from jason.syoinc.com ( [*ipaddress*])
>         by www.heidebreicht.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id gA4DdLa24488
>         for <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 08:39:21 -0500
>
>
>   Why is 'heidebreicht.com' listed in there?

    heidebreicht.com is the server?

>
>  And this mail will fail with this message if sent from any account
>  other than those that share the same IP address above.
>
>        The original message was received at Mon, 4 Nov 2002 08:18:09 -0500
>        from 63-215-165-9.digitalrealm.net [63.215.165.9]
>
>        ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>        <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>        (reason: 553 5.3.0 <Jason@xxxxxxx>... No such user here)
>
>        ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>        ... while talking to mail.drcbrieden.com.:
>        >>> MAIL From:<Jason@xxxxxxx> SIZE=169
>        <<< 553 5.3.0 <Jason@xxxxxxx>... No such user here
>        501 5.6.0 Data format error
>
>
> If YOU sent a message to chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, you would get the above
> failure notice.  If I send it from jasonandsarah.com, it will go
> through.
>
>
> I was asked to make a cname entry and mx change to the
> heidebreicht.com zone record and I think this may be when the mail got
> goofy, here is that zone record:
>
> $origin heidebreicht.com.
> @       IN      SOA     ns.hosting4u.net. jason@xxxxxxxx (
>                                 2001051605              ; Serial
>                                 10800           ; Refresh, seconds
>                                 3600            ; Retry, seconds
>                                 604800          ; Expire, seconds
>                                 86400)          ; Minimum TTL, seconds
>                 IN      NS      ns.hosting4u.net.
>                 IN      NS      ns2.hosting4u.net.
>                 IN      MX      10 mail.heidebreicht.com.
>                 IN      A       209.15.182.23
> $ORIGIN heidebreicht.com.
> mail.heidebreicht.com.          IN      A       208.1.221.18
> smtp.heidebreicht.com.          IN      A       209.15.182.23
> www.heidebreicht.com.           IN      CNAME   nitra.chevydealer.com.
> ftp.heidebreicht.com.           IN      A       209.15.182.23
> *.heidebreicht.com.             IN      A       209.15.182.23
>
>
>
>
> In summary, all the vserver accounts at 209.15.182.23 cannot get mail
> from outside that server.
>
> Error messages come back with www.heidebreicht.com in the header.
>
> Mail accounts in different domains on the same server can talk to each
> other.
>
> I made a zone record change for www.heidebreicht.com last week, I
> think this is when it all got goofy.
>
>
> Can someone see a problem here?
>

Why did you put the cname in there?
There must be a better way to do this.
Do you have to use sildcards '*'?
What is the servers name?

I would say get rig of that cname!

Gerald
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