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Old 04-12-2002
lealyz lealyz is offline
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
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I did the nslookup from my mail server.
The response i got was like this;

#nslookup
Default Server: nslookup.mydomain.com
Address: "ipaddress"

>set type
> set type=mx
>digex.net
Server: ns1.mydomain.com
Address: ipaddress

digex.net preference = 10, mail exchanger = zamboni.mail.algx.net
digex.net preference = 100, mail exchanger = dca1-mx.mail.algx.net
digex.net nameserver = nsF.algx.net
digex.net nameserver = nsE.algx.net
zamboni.mail.algx.net internet address = 204.91.99.98
dca1-mx.mail.algx.net internet address = 204.91.241.15
dca1-mx.mail.algx.net internet address = 204.91.241.16
>
>




and that was all i saw. i didnt see "mydomain" at the end of it.
meanwhile, i checked out my dns entry for my domain name in /var/named/domainname.db ( on my default dns server)
and i realised that i have my MX record for my mail server in it already.
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Last edited by lealyz; 04-12-2002 at 10:09 AM..