[SOLVED] DNS ERROR resolving MX for mydomain.com

Hi
I am Kunal and very much new to zimbra. would like to take zimbra on a test run but can't get through the installation.

We have 1 vmware vsphere host with Windows 2008 server as AD DC, DNS server

Now I have installed zimbra on ubuntu 10 (64 bit) with zcs-7.1.1_GA_3196.UBUNTU10_64.20110527011124.

I am getting stuck at "DNS ERROR resolving MX for mydomain.com"

windows 2008 dns can resolve mail.mydomain.com to ubuntu/zimbra server.

bind 9 can also resolve mydomain.com and mail.mydomain.com as I have set the nameserver of my windows server under "/etc/resolv.conf"


so where should I set the MX server details ? I have already have mx server details on my windows dns .

Please help as I don't know whatelse to do . I have looked at the old posts too.

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Originally Posted by moosy_19

Please help as I don't know whatelse to do . I have looked at the old posts too.

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This 'problem' has been covered all over the forums and in a wiki article. Go to the Split DNS article and read the instructions there, you can run all the commands in the 'Verify...' section of that article to confirm your set-up is correct - that article tells you all you need to know to correct your DNS.

Ok Phoenix

I followed steps mentioned in Split DNS

I had bind9 installed with Ubuntu installation so lot of things are not matching
e.g my named.conf.options is under /etc/bind/named.conf.options

also if I add "include "/etc/rndc.key";
my bind 9 fails to load and "zone "server.example.com"

says invalid option "zone"

when I type in "named -g -p 53"


I also get the following errors. I have used
Split DNS - Zimbra :: Wiki

and

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIND9ServerHowto

and here is some error you may point me with a right solutions

09-Jun-2011 10:53:27.802 zone mail.mydomain.com/IN: NS 'mail.mydomain.com' has no address records (A or AAAA)
09-Jun-2011 10:53:27.802 zone mail.mydomain.com/IN: not loaded due to errors.
09-Jun-2011 10:53:27.806 /etc/bind/db.local:5: no current owner name
09-Jun-2011 10:53:27.806 zone localhost/IN: loading from master file /etc/bind/db.local failed: no owner
09-Jun-2011 10:53:27.806 zone localhost/IN: not loaded due to errors.
09-Jun-2011 10:53:27.807 running

Quote:

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Originally Posted by moosy_19

Ok Phoenix

I followed steps mentioned in Split DNS

I had bind9 installed with Ubuntu installation so lot of things are not matching
e.g my named.conf.options is under /etc/bind/named.conf.options

also if I add "include "/etc/rndc.key";
my bind 9 fails to load and "zone "server.example.com"

says invalid option "zone"

when I type in "named -g -p 53"


I also get the following errors. I have used
Split DNS - Zimbra :: Wiki

and

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIND9ServerHowto

and here is some error you may point me with a right solutions

09-Jun-2011 10:53:27.802 zone mail.mydomain.com/IN: NS 'mail.hickmangov.com.mail.mydomain.com' has no address records (A or AAAA)
09-Jun-2011 10:53:27.802 zone mail.mydomain.com/IN: not loaded due to errors.
09-Jun-2011 10:53:27.806 /etc/bind/db.local:5: no current owner name
09-Jun-2011 10:53:27.806 zone localhost/IN: loading from master file /etc/bind/db.local failed: no owner
09-Jun-2011 10:53:27.806 zone localhost/IN: not loaded due to errors.
09-Jun-2011 10:53:27.807 running

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The section highlighted in red indicates you have no A record and the highlighted section in blue indicates you have an incorrect formatted DNS record (it's probably missing a '.' (a period). I don't use Ubuntu so I can't help you with the file locations, you could always use Webmin to modify the DNS records, it's a useful web UI for server management. There are also a couple of articles on Ubuntu & DNS in the wiki if you'd care to search for them.

OK
I have got it resolved. What I did was trying to get bind9 to work using bind9 installation and then zimbra. that was a mess. Anyway so I recreated my virtual machine and re-installed Ubuntu. remember do a ubuntu only and do not install any packages line bind9 , lamp etc.....

then simply follow bind9 steps on

Split DNS - Zimbra :: Wiki

if you are using Windows server as DNS too then you will need to have your Windows DNS configured too so when a client machines wants to resolve your internal mail server's IP address ,it gets resolved to your Zimbra mail server. Follow the link below to configure your Windows DNS server to resolve your Internal mail server.

How do I... Install and configure a DNS server in Windows Server 2008? | TechRepublic

to add MX record in your Windows DNS Server
Add records to DNS in Windows 2008 - GearHost Support Portal

then Simply follow the Zimbra single server Installation procedure.

Installing Zimbra Software

You will be done and happy like me.

Thanks for all your Help.