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

[Alex Mandel]

If you're seeing this on the list then I think it's fixed.

-Alex

On 03/21/2015 05:29 PM, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> 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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