Having trouble with my MX records.

I have something wrong someplace just can't find it.

Zone Info:
@ 1D IN SOA ns01.signius.com. techs.signius.com. (
2004040531 ; serial
30M ; refresh
30M ; retry
2H ; expire
1H ; minimum
)

; HEY YOU WITH THE EDITOR
; This file is generated automatically.
; All manual changes will be wiped out without a notice.


; NS RECORDS
@ 1D IN NS ns02.signius.com.
@ 1D IN NS ns01.signius.com.

; MX RECORDS
@ 1D IN MX 10 mx01.signius.com.
@ 1D IN MX 20 mx02.signius.com.

; A RECORDS
imap 1D IN A 65.88.208.7
imap01 1D IN A 65.88.208.7
ldap 1D IN A 65.88.208.5
localhost 1D IN A 127.0.0.1
mx01 1D IN A 65.88.208.12
mx02 1D IN A 65.88.208.13
ns1 1D IN A 65.88.208.30
ns2 1D IN A 65.88.208.31
smtp 1D IN A 65.88.208.10
smtp01 1D IN A 65.88.208.10
www 1D IN A 65.88.208.5

; RR RECORDS

Dig Results:

[root@localhost pri]# dig mx answernetnetwork.net

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2-P3 <<>> mx answernetnetwork.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49981
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;answernetnetwork.net. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
answernetnetwork.net. 66793 IN MX 10 mx01.signius.com.
answernetnetwork.net. 66793 IN MX 20 mx02.signius.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
answernetnetwork.net. 66793 IN NS ns02.signius.com.
answernetnetwork.net. 66793 IN NS ns01.signius.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mx01.signius.com. 3600 IN A 65.88.208.12
mx02.signius.com. 3600 IN A 65.88.208.13
ns01.signius.com. 3600 IN A 65.88.208.30
ns02.signius.com. 3600 IN A 65.88.208.31

;; Query time: 43 msec
;; SERVER: 207.99.0.1#53(207.99.0.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Apr 5 10:50:56 2004
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 193

But nslookup produces:
[root@localhost pri]# nslookup type=mx answernetnetwork.net
Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with
the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
nslookup: Couldn't find server 'answernetnetwork.net': Name or service not known

Not sure what is wrong or were to fix. I have tried different thing but not sure where to even look now.

Thanks
Robert

I've never used nslookup like that. Perhaps it's not the proper way to use it.

Reguardless, I checked your configuration remotely and there's nothing wrong with your MX records provided that the IPs they point to has a properly configured mail server.

Thanks came to find out that I can send mail fine from yahoo.com, comcast.net, and a few other but can't send from that Exchange Server. Switched it to another DNS server and it keeps saying host can't be found. This is straing the problem is that the exchange server is the current mail server and what I hope to migrate off of to the new server once I confirm everything is working fine with the test domain. The nslookup type=mx domain.com apears to be linux maybe unix spefic and doesn't work under NT at all I found out. Any why that you know to find out under nt 4.x or 2000 what the MX server it see's for a domain.

This is how you can view your MX records from a remote location:

dig answernetnetwork.net mx

The above displays 2 MX records. Click on the mail server links to resolve them to an IP to verify it points to the right address.

This is how you can view your MX record information locally on an NT box:

When in tried 127.0.0.1 it wouldn't reslove anything. I did:

nslookup
Server: resolver.xxxxxx.xxx
Address: 216.xx.xx.xx
> set type=mx
> dollardns.net
Gave right info:
> answernetnetwork.net
Gave me 2 timeout message.
Did again and this time returned information.
I am restarting the server to see if that resloves the problems.

Making this change may help with that:

You use the following as your host name servers:


answernetnetwork.net. NS ns1.answernetnetwork.net.
answernetnetwork.net. NS ns2.answernetnetwork.net.
ns1.answernetnetwork.net. A 65.88.208.30
ns2.answernetnetwork.net. A 65.88.208.31


But you have the following in your zone:


answernetnetwork.net. NS ns01.signius.com.
answernetnetwork.net. NS ns02.signius.com.


Change your zone to match the registered name servers.