[SOLVED] New Zimbra Setup - newbie help

[leog21]

Hi,

I'm trying to install Zimbra OS edition on Centos5. But I'm having DNS issues resolving the address during installation.

DNS ERROR resolving MX for mail.mydomain.com
It is suggested that the domain name have an MX record configured in DNS
Change domain name? [Yes] Create Domain: [mail.mydomain.com]

I'm using a sonicwall router to setup a one to one nat between the public ip and the private ip of my server.

My public ip points to the A Record mail.mydomain.com
and my MX record for mydomain.com shows: IN 10 mail.mydomain.com

My /etc/hosts file looks like this

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost
::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
192.168.26.39   mail.mydomain.com mail

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best,
Leo

[phoenix]

Welcome to the forums.

You'll need to add a local DNS server to your set-up behind the router, that will allow your server to resolve it's local IP address. Check this article in the wiki. You should also disable ipv6 on your server.

[leog21]

I've done everything as directed in the Bind DNS setup from the wiki ( Split DNS - ZimbraWiki )
but I can't get bind to run.

I get the following error:

Starting named:
Error in named configuration:
zone mail.mydomain.com/IN: loading master file db.mail.mydomain.com: file not found
_default/mail.mydomain.com/IN: file not found
[FAILED]

Based on the instructions, I setup my /etc/named.conf file with:

// Default named.conf generated by install of bind-9.2.4-2
options {
       directory "/var/named";
       dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
       statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
forwarders { 
 ; };
};
include "/etc/rndc.key";
// We are the master server for mail.mydomain.com
zone "mail.mydomain.com" {
    type master;
    file "db.mail.mydomain.com";
};

and I created the db.mail.mydomain.com file with:

;
;       Addresses and other host information.
;
@       IN      SOA     mail.mydomain.com. hostmaster.mail.mydomain.com. (
                               10118      ; Serial
                               43200      ; Refresh
                               3600       ; Retry
                               3600000    ; Expire
                               2592000 )  ; Minimum
;       Define the nameservers and the mail servers
               IN      NS      192.168.26.39
               IN      A        192.168.26.39
               IN      MX      10 mail.mydomain.com

I also created all symlinks into the chroot folders.

I am stuck with:

Starting named:
Error in named configuration:
zone mail.mydomain.com/IN: loading master file db.mail.mydomain.com: file not found
_default/mail.mydomain.com/IN: file not found
[FAILED]

I don't know if you can help me with the bind problem. I'd appreciate any input. Thanks!

[leog21]

I am not sure if this is related to it, but when I click on the mail queue icon, I get the following error message

Message: system failure: exception during auth {RemoteManager: mail.mydomain.com->zimbra@mail.mydomain.com:22}
Error code: service.FAILURE
Method: ZmCsfeCommand.prototype.invoke
Details:soap:Receiver

I've followed the instructions from here Mail Queue Monitoring - ZimbraWiki with no resolution.

[leog21]

Thanks for your help and for the great Forums.

I was able to solve my problem by following the instructions in this article

http://www.zimbra.com/blog/archives/...ogether_1.html