trying to figure out why mail is bouncing

[bscott at ntisys.com]

  Please don't top-quote.

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, at 10:08am, jfreeman at threeofus.com wrote:
>> Following the delegation chain from the roots, I see your ISP says
>> <4.38.232.199.in-addr.arpa.> is a CNAME for <4.threeofus.com.>.  If you
>> put a PTR record in for that name with RHS <threeofus.com>, that should
>> fix things up.  That, and fixing <mail.threeofus.com> to have an A
>> record, rather then a CNAME.
>
> I think I have to make changes in a few places.. help me figure this
> out... there's /etc/named.conf ... then, there's
> /var/named/38.232.199.hosts and /var/named/threeofus.com.hosts ... any
> idea where I should be making changes?

  I presume /var/named/threeofus.com/hosts is the zone database file which
named loads for the <threeofus.com> zone?  If so, you need to
add/change/verify the following records:

	4.threeofus.com.	IN	PTR	mail.threeofus.com.
	mail.threeofus.com.	IN	A	199.232.38.4
	threeofus.com.		IN	MX	mail.threeofus.com.

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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