Install Help Suse 10.1

[rusty741]

Hello everyone. I'm getting a few common errors. I'll start with my first problem. I"m also running Suse Linux 10.1.

My first problem is in the quick install guide it says something like the below:

----------------Excerpt from install guide---------------------------
Important: Make sure that FQDN entry in /etc/hosts appears before the
hostnames. If this is missing, the creation of the Zimbra certificate fails. The
FQDN entry should look like this example. See zmcreatecert in the
Administrator’s Guide, CLI Commands appendix.

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
your.ip.address FQDN yourhostname
------------------end of Excerpt from install guide-------------------

Here is what my hostfile says file says:

---------------------Start my file----------------------------------------
#
# hosts This file describes a number of hostname-to-address
# mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly
# used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
# On small systems, this file can be used instead of a
# "named" name server.
# Syntax:
#
# IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname Short-Hostname
#

127.0.0.1 localhost

# special IPv6 addresses
::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback

fe00::0 ipv6-localnet

ff00::0 ipv6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ipv6-allnodes
ff02::2 ipv6-allrouters
ff02::3 ipv6-allhosts
127.0.0.2 mailhost-rustyriley-com.mailhost.rustyriley.com mailhost-rustyriley-com
192.168.1.117 mailhost-rustyriley-com.mailhost.rustyriley.com mailhost-rustyriley-com
------------------------END OF MY FILE------------------------------------------


Needless to say it is not looking the way I want it to look and I'm a little confused on how it should look.

my domain name is rustyriley.com

[rusty741]

This is for a school project and I have to have the server up and running by next tuesday. I was hoping someone could help me figure out my format for the file above, cause I want to make sure I'm compliant the whole way though the installiation.


Thanks,
Rusty Riley

[phoenix]

For some reason your hosts file entry

192.168.1.117 mailhost-rustyriley-com.mailhost.rustyriley.com mailhost-rustyriley-com

seem to think that your domain name is 'mailhost-rustyriley-com'. You must have given that machine that domain name when you set-up your network connection. I suggest you go itno YaST/Network Devices/Network Card and edit your NIC settings. On the Network Address Setup you need to make sure this PC has a fixed IP and then on Hostname/Server box change the settings. You need your correct domain name and I'd suggest a shorter host name - click OK and come out of YaST and the settings should be saved. That should do what you need.

[rusty741]

For some reason your hosts file entry

192.168.1.117 mailhost-rustyriley-com.mailhost.rustyriley.com mailhost-rustyriley-com

seem to think that your domain name is 'mailhost-rustyriley-com'. You must have given that machine that domain name when you set-up your network connection. I suggest you go itno YaST/Network Devices/Network Card and edit your NIC settings. On the Network Address Setup you need to make sure this PC has a fixed IP and then on Hostname/Server box change the settings. You need your correct domain name and I'd suggest a shorter host name - click OK and come out of YaST and the settings should be saved. That should do what you need.

Thanks man. I think I got it figured out on that part. Here is a dump of my hosts file. It looks close to right.
-------------------------------------------------------START HOST FILE------------------------------------
#
# hosts This file describes a number of hostname-to-address
# mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly
# used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
# On small systems, this file can be used instead of a
# "named" name server.
# Syntax:
#
# IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname Short-Hostname
#

127.0.0.1 localhost

# special IPv6 addresses
::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback

fe00::0 ipv6-localnet

ff00::0 ipv6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ipv6-allnodes
ff02::2 ipv6-allrouters
ff02::3 ipv6-allhosts
127.0.0.2 mail.rustyriley.com mail
192.168.1.117 mail.rustyriley.com mail
-----------------------------END HOST FILE--------------------------------------------------

[phoenix]

Yes, that's almost right. I missed this earlier, you need to change the 127.0.0.1 to this:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

and you should be good to go.

[rusty741]

Yes, that's almost right. I missed this earlier, you need to change the 127.0.0.1 to this:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

and you should be good to go.

Hi Thank you for your help. Here is the error message I'm getting. I'm pretty sure I've set up the MX Server right. Here is what is listed in my domain management settings with MYDOMAIN.com

MX: mail.rustyriley.com
A Record: 66.69.168.231

This is the expert from zimbra install. You can tell it is gettting the IP Address from somewhere.

zimbra-spell......zimbra-spell-4.0.2_GA_362.SuSE10-20060922134048.i386.rpm...done
Operations logged to /tmp/zmsetup.log.4765
Setting defaults... MX: mail.rustyriley.com (66.69.168.231)

Interface: 192.168.1.117
Interface: 127.0.0.1
66.69.168.231
66.69.168.231


DNS ERROR - none of the MX records for mail.rustyriley.com
resolve to this host
Change domain name? [Yes] yes
Create Domain: [mail.rustyriley.com] mail.rustyriley.com
MX: mail.rustyriley.com (66.69.168.231)

Interface: 192.168.1.117
Interface: 127.0.0.1


DNS ERROR - none of the MX records for mail.rustyriley.com
resolve to this host
It is suggested that the MX record resolve to this host
Re-Enter domain name? [Yes] Y
Create Domain: [mail.rustyriley.com] mail.rustyriley.com
MX: mail.rustyriley.com (66.69.168.231)

Interface: 192.168.1.117
Interface: 127.0.0.1



DNS ERROR - none of the MX records for mail.rustyriley.com
resolve to this host
It is suggested that the MX record resolve to this host
Re-Enter domain name? [Yes] Create Domain: [mail.rustyriley.com] y


DNS ERROR resolving MX for y
It is suggested that the domain name have an MX record configured in DNS
Re-Enter domain name? [Yes] y
Create Domain: [mail.rustyriley.com] mail.rustyriley.com
MX: mail.rustyriley.com (66.69.168.231)

Interface: 192.168.1.117
Interface: 127.0.0.1


DNS ERROR - none of the MX records for mail.rustyriley.com
resolve to this host
It is suggested that the MX record resolve to this host
Re-Enter domain name? [Yes] y
Create Domain: [mail.rustyriley.com] rustyriley.com
MX: m1.dnsix.com (63.251.171.163)
MX: m1.dnsix.com (63.251.171.165)
MX: m1.dnsix.com (63.251.171.166)
MX: m1.dnsix.com (63.251.83.84)

Interface: 192.168.1.117
Interface: 127.0.0.1


DNS ERROR - none of the MX records for rustyriley.com
resolve to this host
It is suggested that the MX record resolve to this host
Re-Enter domain name? [Yes] y
Create Domain: [mail.rustyriley.com] .rustyriley.com
MX: m1.dnsix.com (63.251.171.165)
MX: m1.dnsix.com (63.251.171.166)
MX: m1.dnsix.com (63.251.83.84)
MX: m1.dnsix.com (63.251.171.163)

Interface: 192.168.1.117
Interface: 127.0.0.1


DNS ERROR - none of the MX records for .rustyriley.com
resolve to this host
It is suggested that the MX record resolve to this host
Re-Enter domain name? [Yes] y
Create Domain: [mail.rustyriley.com] mail.rustyriley.com
MX: mail.rustyriley.com (66.69.168.231)

Interface: 192.168.1.117
Interface: 127.0.0.1


DNS ERROR - none of the MX records for mail.rustyriley.com
resolve to this host
It is suggested that the MX record resolve to this host
Re-Enter domain name? [Yes] N

Here is my etc/HOSTS File as it stands.

#
# hosts This file describes a number of hostname-to-address
# mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly
# used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
# On small systems, this file can be used instead of a
# "named" name server.
# Syntax:
#
# IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname Short-Hostname
#

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

# special IPv6 addresses
::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback

fe00::0 ipv6-localnet

ff00::0 ipv6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ipv6-allnodes
ff02::2 ipv6-allrouters
ff02::3 ipv6-allhosts
127.0.0.2 mail.rustyriley.com mail
192.168.1.117 mail.rustyriley.com mail

I've read DNS In a nutshell and been all through the fourmns here and I feel like i'm getting closer to this issue.

Any help would be greatly apperciated.

Rusty Riley

[phoenix]

You don't have an A or MX record pointing to your public IP address, that's the problem. You need to make changes to the records so that Zimbra can resolve your mail.rustyriley.com to your public IP.

[rusty741]

You don't have an A or MX record pointing to your public IP address, that's the problem. You need to make changes to the records so that Zimbra can resolve your mail.rustyriley.com to your public IP.

I thought my PUBLIC IP is 66.69.168.231. Thats the IP address going to my router. Then on my router I have all of the ports forwarded to 192.168.1.117

[phoenix]

My confusion stems from the fact you said this earlier:

my domain name is rustyriley.com

If you check that domain name (which I did earlier) then there is no A or MX records that point to your public IP. After your last post I did a check for a domain name called mail.rustyriley.com and voila, it has an MX record pointing to your IP..... but 'mail.rustyriley.com' is not correct.

What you need to have is an MX record under your domain records for 'rustyriley.com' that points to your public IP. The name 'mail.rustyriley.com' is the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) of the computer that runs zimbra, it consists of the name of the machine (mail) and your domain name (rustyriley.com). Look at these tests for mail.rustyriley.com and rustyriley.com they show different results. You also have another problem, if I telnet to port 25 on your public IP then I get a 'connection refused' which means that your server isn't up, your port isn't forwarded to the correct IP or you have a firewall blocking that port.

[rusty741]

I thought my PUBLIC IP is 66.69.168.231. Thats the IP address going to my router. Then on my router I have all of the ports forwarded to 192.168.1.117

So I was doing some investigating and I found this posted in the "Pulling my hair out" post

Hi-
You don't have an MX record.

Your MX record needs to point to either:
1) your router(if you have one), the port forward your router's mta port to your natted IP
2) your machine.

My question is, I have my MX pointed to 66.69.168.231

But then it says the port foward on your router's MTA Port to your natted IP. I guess I'm a little confused there. Below is a list of Ports that I have fowarded to my machine IP address of 192.168.1.117

7071
25
80
110
143
389
443
993
995
7025