Time to give in?

[ValueVPS]

Scenario:

Client has two VPS's - one for his DirectAdmin admin installation on 193.104.xxx.64 and 65. The other vps on 193.104.xxx.69 is for Zimbra.

.69 is a Xen VPS with 2gb Ram (plus 2gb swap) and I am installing Zimbra onto a 64 bit CentOS OS.

Zimbra installs fine but comes up with an error over the DNS for the MX - this is the part that is losing me - i can't find anything wrong - all DNS entre's, MX and A records all appear to be ok.

I have fully installed Zimbra but get errors when trying to send email - and emails sent to the zimbra box are going nowhere.

Is there anyone that is able to assist?

Cheers

Dave

[mmorse]

Hi Dave,
By default we check for a dns record based on hostname, so were really seeing if root@server.domain.com works instead of an mx record for root@domain.com.

You can ignore the error and create as many domains as you want later, or change the default to domain.com the first time.

If your having further issues, please provide us with output of the following:

cat /etc/hosts
cat /etc/resolv.conf
dig domain.com mx
dig domain.com any
host `hostname`  <--backticks not single quotes

[ValueVPS]

cat /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
193.104.35.243 mail.wirednetworks.info

cat /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 82.138.232.200
nameserver 82.138.233.155

dig domain.com mx

; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.1 <<>> wirednetworks.info mx
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45172
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;wirednetworks.info. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
wirednetworks.info. 14400 IN MX 10 mail.wirednetworks.info.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
wirednetworks.info. 11768 IN NS ns4.wnservers.com.
wirednetworks.info. 11768 IN NS ns5.wnservers.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mail.wirednetworks.info. 11768 IN A 193.104.35.243
ns4.wnservers.com. 4918 IN A 193.104.35.64
ns5.wnservers.com. 4918 IN A 193.104.35.65

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 82.138.232.200#53(82.138.232.200)
;; WHEN: Tue Jan 12 11:46:39 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 172

dig domain.com any

; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.1 <<>> wirednetworks.info any
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3398
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;wirednetworks.info. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
wirednetworks.info. 11681 IN NS ns4.wnservers.com.
wirednetworks.info. 11681 IN NS ns5.wnservers.com.
wirednetworks.info. 14313 IN MX 10 mail.wirednetworks.info.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
wirednetworks.info. 11681 IN NS ns4.wnservers.com.
wirednetworks.info. 11681 IN NS ns5.wnservers.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns4.wnservers.com. 4831 IN A 193.104.35.64
ns5.wnservers.com. 4831 IN A 193.104.35.65
mail.wirednetworks.info. 11681 IN A 193.104.35.243

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 82.138.232.200#53(82.138.232.200)
;; WHEN: Tue Jan 12 11:48:06 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 182

host `hostname` <--backticks not single quotes

mail.wirednetworks.info has address 193.104.35.243