Re: Email Problems

["James P. Roberts" <punster punsterproductions com>]

<snip>
> Have you tried manually resolving the domain DNS records from an external
> machine?  (dig virtdomain1.com any)
>
> Jim
> --------------------------------------------
>
> The actual domain name is 'lespagesjaunes.sn'
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Omar FALL -


When I dig that domain, all I get is the SOA and a single Name Server (NS)
record:

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> lespagesjaunes.sn any
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3927
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;lespagesjaunes.sn.             IN      ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
lespagesjaunes.sn.      86400   IN      SOA     ns.ucad.sn. admin.ns.ucad.sn.
2002071901 21600 3600 640800 86400
lespagesjaunes.sn.      86400   IN      NS      ns.ucad.sn.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
lespagesjaunes.sn.      86400   IN      NS      ns.ucad.sn.

;; Query time: 205 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri May  2 15:26:57 2003
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 113


As you can see, ns.ucad.sn has been delegated authority for this domain;
however, there are no A or MX records present!  So, of course, there is no way
for any remote email program to send email to that domain.  You are going to
have to get admin ns ucad sn to insert actual A and MX records for this domain
into the name server at ns.ucad.sn, pointing to your server(s).  Or, get the
Registrar for lespagesjaunes.sn to delegate the authority to some other
REGISTERED name server under your control, and insert the A and MX records
yourself.

BTW, it is widely regarded as a "bad idea" to only have one name server for a
domain.  It can result in serious problems if your single name server goes
off-line, even for a short time, because DNS query results are generally
cached.  Even a brief interruption can result in extended problems, until
caches around the world expire the "failure" results.  You should look into
setting up a "slave" DNS server, or finding someone to provide that service
for you.

Jim