[SOLVED] installation successful, cannot recieve mail

[dgoradia]

ive succesfully installed zimbra and asked my registrar to change their DNS records to:

mail.adhocracymgt.com. A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
mail.adhocracymgt.com. MX 0 mail.adhocracymgt.com.
adhocracymgt.com. MX 0 mail.adhocracymgt.com.

do i have to setup bind on my server?

i cannot recieve mail so i think it might be DNS.

any suggestions???

[dgoradia]

any help at all????

also if i want to recieve and send mail to any emal address (i.e. yahoo, gmail etc) do i need to edit named.conf

or just named.conf.local

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by dgoradia

any help at all????

Yes, there's a search function at the top of this page. This is a community help forum, someone will get to you when they can, please don't post 1hr after your original post and demand help.

Tell us what you've done to debug the problem?

Originally Posted by dgoradia

also if i want to recieve and send mail to any emal address (i.e. yahoo, gmail etc) do i need to edit named.conf

or just named.conf.local

From this comment I'd guess you are behind a NAT router? If that's the case the search the forums and wiki (link at the top of this page) for Split DNS and implement that.

[dgoradia]

i'm sorry if i came across as zealious. I just added 'any help' to the begiining as a intro to the rest of the second post as i forgot to mention something.

By all means, take your time


i have searched the forums and google and tried those but to no avail

let me know what debugging info you would like and i shall post it.

no harm intended friend

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by dgoradia

no harm intended friend

None taken.

I did give you the hint to the problem in my last post, Split DNS if you're behind a NAT router - are you?

[dgoradia]

i will try your link and get back to you in the morning. it is 11.30 pm.

[dgoradia]

i'm following the Split DNS in the Wiki link you have me.

This is on RHEL and the named.conf includes options and local i think, but on ubuntu, which i'm on, i have 3 file, named.conf, named.conf.options and named.conf.local

which one should i edit in place of named.conf

Currently my named.conf looks like this (before i did split dns)

include "/etc/bind/named.conf.options";

// prime the server with knowledge of the root servers
zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "/etc/bind/db.root";
};

// be authoritative for the localhost forward and reverse zones, and for
// broadcast zones as per RFC 1912

zone "localhost" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/db.local";
};

zone "127.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/db.127";
};

zone "0.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/db.0";
};

zone "255.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/db.255";

};

// zone "com" { type delegation-only; };
// zone "net" { type delegation-only; };

// From the release notes:
//  Because many of our users are uncomfortable receiving undelegated answers
//  from root or top level domains, other than a few for whom that behaviour
//  has been trusted and expected for quite some length of time, we have now
//  introduced the "root-delegations-only" feature which applies delegation-only
//  logic to all top level domains, and to the root domain.  An exception list
//  should be specified, including "MUSEUM" and "DE", and any other top level
//  domains from whom undelegated responses are expected and trusted.
// root-delegation-only exclude { "DE"; "MUSEUM"; };

include "/etc/bind/named.conf.local";

named.conf.local is

//
// Do any local configuration here
//

// Consider adding the 1918 zones here, if they are not used in your
// organization
//include "/etc/bind/zones.rfc1918";

zone "mail.adhocracymgt.com" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/zones/mail.adhocracymgt.com.db";
        };

zone "50.87.76.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/zones/rev.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa";
};

and named.conf.options look like

options {
        directory "/var/cache/bind";

        // If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
        // to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
        // directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
        // questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 and later use an unprivileged
        // port by default.

        // query-source address * port 53;

        // If your ISP provided one or more IP addresses for stable
        // nameservers, you probably want to use them as forwarders.
        // Uncomment the following block, and insert the addresses replacing
        // the all-0's placeholder.

         forwarders {
         66.75.160.63;
         66.75.160.64;
 };

        auth-nxdomain no;    # conform to RFC1035
        listen-on-v6 { any; };
};

[phoenix]

How about this intro to Ubuntu installation?

[dgoradia]

im using the RHEL split DNS tut and this is what i put in my zone file

;
;       Addresses and other host information.
;
@       IN      SOA     mail.adhocracymgt.com. admin.adhocracymgt.com. (
                                10118   ; Serial
                                43200   ; Refresh
                                3600    ; Retry
                                3600000 ; Expire
                                2592000 ; Minimum
;       Define the nameservers and mail servers
                IN      NS      192.168.1.11
                IN      A       192.168.1.11
                IN      MX 10   mail.adhocracymgt.com

my domain's dns records at the registrars servers are

mail.adhocracymgt.com. IN A 76.87.50.202
mail.adhocracymgt.com. IN MX 0 mail.adhocracymgt.com.
adhocracymgt.com. IN MX 0 mail.adhocracymgt.com.

is my zone file correct?

[dgoradia]

ok so i followed the split DNS tutorial, and nslookup doesn't resolve anything, just throws me an error. The ubuntu link you have me is for a mail server on the DMZ of the network. Is it safe to install zimbra on a DMZ server?