[afnog] MX record Problem.

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:54:19AM -0700,
 Maina M Noah <ncmaina2001 at yahoo.com> wrote 
 a message of 100 lines which said:

> i added a new entry for a new mail server that i had just setup for
> our internal office, however the setting don't seem to be taking
> effect.  when i query the name server for the MX records, it returns
> a no answer.

Many things can go wrong: did you added the record to the right file?
Did you reload the name server software? Was the reload successful (of
course, you checked the log, did you?)

> [admin at ns1 named]# dig mx +norec @ns1.domain.com domain.com

Using real domain names would help.

> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;wia.co.tz.                     IN      MX

:-)

> ns1     IN      A       192.168.1.2
> ns2     IN      A       172.16.1.3
> 
> ; Mail Server
>         IN      MX      10      mail

There is no domain name in the above line, so BIND uses the *last*
entry with a domain name, here ns2. So, you just created a MX for
ns2.wia.co.tz.