[afnog] Postfix Problem

[Brian Candler]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:57:33PM +0200, tracy musaza wrote:
>    I'm connecting to my server by #telnet 127.0.0.1  25    as smtp  but
>    not on 110;

What *exactly* do you see?

>    From my outlook express inside my network ( 192.168.9.0/24)  I'm able
>    to send messages but can't receive; I gotta messages of popper error.

What *exactly* do you see?

Sorry, but a few seconds of cut-and-paste on your side will save us a *lot*
of work trying to pin down your problem. Otherwise you're asking us to write
an essay giving all the background behind POP3 and SMTP, how the bits fit
together, how to start and stop daemons, how to install software, how Unix
works...

There's more information on how to word your questions so as to get helpful
answers from a technical mailing list here:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

>    My domain is       telenet.jobantech.cd as my hostname is
>    mail.telenet.jobantech.cd;

>From here that doesn't resolve:

$ nslookup mail.telenet.jobantech.cd
Server:         212.74.112.66
Address:        212.74.112.66#53

** server can't find mail.telenet.jobantech.cd: NXDOMAIN

$ nslookup -q=ns telenet.jobantech.cd.
Server:         212.74.112.66
Address:        212.74.112.66#53

** server can't find telenet.jobantech.cd: NXDOMAIN

$ nslookup -q=ns jobantech.cd.
Server:         212.74.112.66
Address:        212.74.112.66#53

Non-authoritative answer:
jobantech.cd    nameserver = ns.jobantech.cd.

Authoritative answers can be found from:
ns.jobantech.cd internet address = 64.49.188.4

(ONE nameserver? Shame on you :-)

$ dig @ns.jobantech.cd. telenet.jobantech.cd. mx

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> @ns.jobantech.cd. telenet.jobantech.cd. mx
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 65300
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;telenet.jobantech.cd.          IN      MX

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
jobantech.cd.           3600    IN      SOA     ns.jobantech.cd. root.ns.jobantech.cd. 2005062501 3600 900 3600000 3600

;; Query time: 626 msec
;; SERVER: 64.49.188.4#53(64.49.188.4)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 14 22:20:04 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 82

Nope - your nameserver says that subdomain definitely does not exist
(NXDOMAIN = non-existent domain)

Regards,

Brian.