[vox-tech] some people can't send to list

[Brian E. Lavender]

Echo!

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 04:58:33PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> 
> Brian came over, I did the song & dance to gain access to the
> account at domaindiscover aka tierra.net, and we fiddled with things.
> 
> How's it looking now?  (5:07pm pacific today will be approx 1hr after
> the settings were chaged, FYI)
> 
> -bill!
> 
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:56:21PM -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote:
> > Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> writes:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:24:10AM -0800, Rod Roark wrote:
> > >> On 02/23/2015 11:20 AM, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> > >> > Hey, so word is that some can't send email to the lugod lists because the
> > >> > mailserver the MX record is a CNAME rather than an A record?
> > >> >
> > >> > brian
> > >>
> > >> Dunno who's administering the lugod.org domain, but whoever that is
> > >> should be able to fix it.
> > >
> > > That'd be me.  Thx for looking into it folks, I'll try to figure
> > > it out next time I'm on my home laptop (which has all the creds
> > > to get into things).
> > 
> > Hiya.  DNS geek here.  Things are still technically incorrect as
> > currently deployed.  You aren't supposed to have a name after a service
> > referral (in this case an MX) that is itself a CNAME referral.
> > 
> > This is fine:
> > 
> >   # dig lugod.org mx
> > 
> >   ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> >   lugod.org.              3600    IN      MX      10 www.lugod.org.
> > 
> > This is not:
> > 
> >   # dig www.lugod.org.
> > 
> >   ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> >   www.lugod.org.          3600    IN      CNAME   lugod.org.
> >   lugod.org.              3600    IN      A       173.13.165.50
> > 
> > *some* (most) DNS resolution software lets you get away with that, but
> > it's not legal according to the DNS RFCs and shouldn't be done.
> > 
> > 
> > The right thing to do would be to replace the MX record so it looked
> > like this:
> > 
> >   lugod.org.              3600    IN      MX      10 lugod.org.
> > 
> > Which would then work.  Though, the best thing to do is actually create
> > a new host record:
> > 
> >   lugod.org.              3600    IN      MX      10 mail.lugod.org.
> >   mail.lugod.org.         3600    IN      A       173.13.165.50
> > 
> > :-)
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> -bill!
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