MX and DNS Errors

[mikeswanson]

I am installing Zimbra on an OS X server. I use internal IP address and DNS server. The installation fails because no MX record can be found. Do I need to put the server outside my firewall?

[mmorse]

do a 'dig mx domain.com' from your zimbra server-what's the result?

[mikeswanson]

Thanks...

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> mx domain.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29696
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;domain.com. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
domain.com. 3600 IN MX 10 sentry.domainbank.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
domain.com. 1149 IN NS ns3.dotsterhost.com.
domain.com. 1149 IN NS ns1.dotsterhost.com.
domain.com. 1149 IN NS ns2.dotsterhost.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.dotsterhost.com. 83311 IN A 72.5.54.12
ns2.dotsterhost.com. 83311 IN A 72.5.54.13
ns3.dotsterhost.com. 79598 IN A 64.94.31.85

;; Query time: 70 msec
;; SERVER: 10.9.1.252#53(10.9.1.252)
;; WHEN: Tue Jul 3 12:13:54 2007
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 176

[jholder]

It's probably failing because by default, the installer will query for mail.domain.com, not mail.com

Tell it that you want to change the domain to domain.com