[ILUG] [OT] Free DNS & MX

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Ruairi Newman wrote:

> I've gone ahead with that as suggested and am attempting to set up the
> records.  However the MX is giving me some problems.  My sole MX is to
> be "mailrecv.bigmailbox.com" and this is the line I have put in to
> reference that:
>
> "tech-mad.net.  IN  MX  10  mailrecv.bigmailbox.com."
>
> This is met by the following error message:
>
> "nslint: name referenced without other records:
> mailrecv.bigmailbox.com."
>
> I am not particularly familiar with DNS & MX and do not know what type
> of reference to the mail server it expects to find.  Can you help me out
> here?
>

granitecanyon automatically run a checker called nslint against
submitted zone files. it will refuse your zone if you reference a host
not in your zone *unless* you put a marker in to tell their nslint
that it's ok.. like this:

@		IN MX	10 mymx.otherzone.com ; EXTREF

(or replace @ with the zone name if your origin isn't the same as the
same, but it should be)

the ; EXTREF bit is the directive to nslint.. also, you need to have
an RP record setup and the corresponding TXT entry:

@		IN RP	myemail.isp.net	me
me		   TXT  "joe bloggs, ACME corp., __contact details__"


you can have multiple RP's if you have multiple email addresses that
you want to be contacted by, just point them to the me TXT RR.

All this stuff is in the docs/FAQ on soa.granitecanyon.com, so have a
good read of it. :)

> Regards,


--paulj