OK, having sorted out that the vast majority of issues were due to my
router, I have gotten most of the DNS stuff worked out and decided to
tackle Postfix.
I have managed to make it work locally (its broken out of the box on
Mandrake 9.1) and think it even might handle Internet mail OK, but, I am
getting a DNS MX host error.
Here is the master zone file for the primary host which is also the DNS
and postfix host (edited for domains).
Where did I go wrong? (the hostname is "www" - not "ns1" or the like -
and is a registered DNS host for all domain types, including .org).
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$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA www.my-host-domain.net.
myemail.myemaildomain.ca. (
2006042207 ; serial number YYMMDDNN
28800 ; Refresh
7200 ; Retry
864000 ; Expire
86400 ; Min TTL
)
NS www.my-host-domain.net.
NS ns.my-secondary.com.
$ORIGIN my-host-domain.net.
@ MX 10 www.my-host-domain.net.
my-host-domain.net. IN A 206.248.137.99
; Alias (canonical) names
ftp IN CNAME my-host-domain.net.
mail IN CNAME my-host-domain.net.
www IN CNAME my-host-domain.net.
blogs IN CNAME my-host-domain.net.
forums IN CNAME my-host-domain.net.
gallery IN CNAME my-host-domain.net.
; List of machine names & addresses
;box2 IN A 192.168.0.4 ; iis
;box3 IN A 192.168.0.5 ; ws
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I have tried a lot of permutations, some having no effect, some causing
the problem to worsen (mail goes poof into cyberspace never to be seen
again) and others causing bind to die on startup.
Cheers
Scy