[underdog]

Hmm, ok this might be a little off topic but i was hoping someone might be able to help as i can imagine that some people have seen this before and will see this again:

here's the scenario:

i have a router etc all setup and accepting connections to ports 25, 110,80, 7071 and 143 (i think that's all i need for zimbra but not sure perhaps you can confirm this also?). On my DNS i have the mx record for mail.whatever.com pointing to the static ip address which my router is listening on and i can ping etc all fine and well.

in my /etc/hosts file i have:

127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain           localhost
          mail.whatever.com        mailserver

but when i install zimbra i get the following:

DNS ERROR resolving MX for mail.underdogmedia.co.uk
It is suggested that the domain name have an MX record configured in DNS
Change domain name? [Yes]

so i type in "no"

and then it all installs fine until i get:

** Backup /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra to /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra.20080903134531
** Creating server cert request /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/server/server.csr...done.
** Signing cert request /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/server/server.csr...done.
Wed Sep  3 13:45:32 2008 done.
Wed Sep  3 13:45:32 2008 Installing mailboxd SSL certificates...
Wed Sep  3 13:45:32 2008 *** Running as root user: /opt/zimbra/bin/zmcertmgr deploycrt self
** Installing mta certificate and key...done.
** Installing slapd certificate and key...done.
** Installing proxy certificate and key...done.
** Creating pkcs12 file /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/jetty.pkcs12...done.
** Creating keystore file /opt/zimbra/mailboxd/etc/keystore...done.
** Installing CA to /opt/zimbra/conf/ca...done.
Wed Sep  3 13:45:34 2008 done.
Wed Sep  3 13:45:34 2008 checking isEnabled zimbra-ldap
Wed Sep  3 13:45:34 2008 zimbra-ldap is enabled
Wed Sep  3 13:45:34 2008 Initializing ldap...
Wed Sep  3 13:45:34 2008 *** Running as zimbra user: /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmldapinit
IO::Socket::INET: connect: timeout at /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmldapinit line 160.
Wed Sep  3 13:48:15 2008 failed. (29440)
Wed Sep  3 13:48:15 2008

ERROR

Wed Sep  3 13:48:15 2008

Configuration failed

Wed Sep  3 13:48:15 2008 Please address the error and re-run /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmsetup.pl to
Wed Sep  3 13:48:15 2008 complete the configuration.
Wed Sep  3 13:48:15 2008
Errors have been logged to /tmp/zmsetup.01001900-0000147115208.log

Any ideas? some help anyone, this is really baking my head

Thanks