Re: mail going out as @ns.domain, not @domain

From: Greg A. Woods (no email)
Date: Sun Oct 14 2001 - 12:03:48 EDT


[ On Sunday, October 14, 2001 at 08:28:10 (UTC), Karol Krenski wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: mail going out as @ns.domain, not @domain
>
> >And your DNS is at least twice broken:
> >
> > Lame server on 'sgsp.edu.pl' (in 'sgsp.EDU.PL'?):
> > [193.59.201.28].53 'arwena.nask.waw.pl'
>
> what command produced that?

that looks like a named syslog message to me....

here's another view:

         $ host -C sgsp.edu.pl
        sgsp.edu.pl NS ns.sgsp.edu.pl
        ns.sgsp.edu.pl administrator.sgsp.edu.pl (33 900 600 86400 3600)
         !!! sgsp.edu.pl SOA expire is less than 1 week (1 day)
        sgsp.edu.pl NS arwena.nask.waw.pl
        ns.sgsp.edu.pl administrator.sgsp.edu.pl (33 900 600 86400 3600)
         *** sgsp.edu.pl SOA record at arwena.nask.waw.pl is not authoritative
        sgsp.edu.pl has lame delegation to arwena.nask.waw.pl

That's from host version 991529 from ftp://ftp.nikhef.nl/pub/network/host.tar.Z

> And what causes "lame"?

Any delegation of a zone to a server that is not authoritative for that
zone -- i.e. an NS record that points to a server which doesn't
secondary the zone.

> > "sgsp.edu.pl IN MX" points to a CNAME (mail.sgsp.edu.pl)

I don't know what produced that, but:

        $ host -t mx sgsp.edu.pl
        sgsp.edu.pl MX 10 mail.sgsp.edu.pl
         !!! sgsp.edu.pl MX host mail.sgsp.edu.pl is not canonical

> is it CNAME instead
> of A RR for mail.sgsp.edu.pl?

The target name of an MX RR _MUST_ be a canonical hostname -- i.e. a
name that when resolved in the DNS returns an A RR.

(the same rule applies for NS RRs too)

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							Greg A. Woods
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