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Old April 19th, 2004, 10:28 PM
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Not finding MX records.
Hi,

Could someone please have a look at my DNS settings for elephanthead.net.au and tell me why it can't find my MX records.

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Old April 19th, 2004, 11:24 PM
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Found it, but it should be under the root domain, not the mail subdomain:

dig @ns1.elephanthead.net.au elephanthead.net.au axfr
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Old April 19th, 2004, 11:58 PM
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Ok, I've changed that.

But this site: URL

Says that the MX records can't be found.
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Old April 20th, 2004, 08:06 AM
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Well that's because you didn't understand what I just told you. This record:

mail.elephanthead.net.au. MX 10 elephanthead.net.au.

Needs to look like this:

elephanthead.net.au. MX 10 elephanthead.net.au.
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Ah, thank you!

Ok, I fixed that but I'm still having issues that my name server isn't being recognised. I have definitely added it to my registrar, however when I run a dig from an external server it lists three name servers, none of which are mine, and it does not resolve ns1.elephanthead.net.au (my name server).

Here is the dig results I get:
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; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> elephanthead.net.au
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 7093
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;elephanthead.net.au. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
elephanthead.net.au. 1794 IN A 218.214.51.140

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
elephanthead.net.au. 1762 IN NS wic001n.server-dns.com.au.
elephanthead.net.au. 1762 IN NS bne001n.server-dns.com.
elephanthead.net.au. 1762 IN NS sjc001n.server-dns-us.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
wic001n.server-dns.com.au. 150 IN A 203.147.142.1
bne001n.server-dns.com. 91040 IN A 203.147.241.3
sjc001n.server-dns-us.com. 164754 IN A 204.176.184.35

;; Query time: 86 msec
;; SERVER: 61.8.0.113#53(61.8.0.113)
;; WHEN: Wed Apr 21 09:50:55 2004
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 210


The name servers at my registrar are, in order:
ns1.elephanthead.net.au
bne001n.server-dns.com
wic001n.server-dns.com.au

Thanks SilentRage, your wisdom is exceeded only by your patience!

Much respect,
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Give it a little time to update. The information has already updated in the registry:

whois elephanthead.net.au
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