Hi,

I'm using zoneedit.com as my dns for evolutionm.net. Right now I'm having email issues as far as the server sending out emails because the email dns does not resolve correctly and many other mail servers bounce the emails back aying the domain does not resolve. It also seems like the sight (zoneedit.com) is down.

I am using mail.evolutionm.net for my server email. Does anyone know how reliable zoneedit.com is?

Thanks for any help,

Mark

i use zonedit.com for a couple of personal sites and seem to work fine ;)

It is also working fine for me :)

it works fine for me, too...what have you put in your MX record?

Here's my DNS info:

IP Addresses: Domain Name IP Address
evolutionm.net 66.28.95.136
mail.evolutionm.net 66.28.95.136
www.evolutionm.net 66.28.95.136

Mail Servers:
Domain Server Rank
evolutionm.net mail.evolutionm.net 0

Everything works except sending emails from my php scripts.

I tried running nslookup yahoo.com and this was the output:

Server: 207.228.252.107
Address: 207.228.252.107#53

Non-authoritative answer:
*** Can't find yahoo.com: No answer

Same thing for hotmail, etc.

Here's an example email returned to my account:

Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 08:59:12 -0500
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@evom.evolutionm.net>
To: apache@evom.evolutionm.net
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
Parts/Attachments:
1 Shown 8 lines Text
2 Shown 244 bytes Message, "Delivery Status"
3 Shown 1.1 KB Message, "Reply to post 'Price of Your Lancer?'"
3.1 Shown 20 lines Text
----------------------------------------

The original message was received at Sat, 10 Aug 2002 08:59:11 -0500
from apache@localhost

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
dsalamonec@aol.com

----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 5.1.2 dsalamonec@aol.com... Host unknown (Name server: aol.com: no data known)

[ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ]

Reporting-MTA: dns; evom.evolutionm.net
Arrival-Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 08:59:11 -0500

Final-Recipient: RFC822; dsalamonec@aol.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.2
Remote-MTA: DNS; aol.com
Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 08:59:12 -0500

Mark

it appears that the error is not with your DNS Record, but with the name server(s) your site's server is using to lookup the info for domains. If you have shell access to your server, try using the host command on a domain, I think you'll get the same error.

You should contact your host about this, or if you own the server contact your ISP.

I believe my nameservers are with zoneedit.com correct?

http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?STRING=evolutionm.net&SearchType=do

Should I be contacting them about this matter?

Thanks,

Mark

the nameservers that people use to find out about your site are with zone edit, but the problem appears to be with the nameservers that your site's server uses to find out about other sites...that's why you can't send email with php. I don't think this problem is anything to do with zone edit.

Are these the DNS settings in resolv.conf? If so, is it possible to set this to the zoneedit nameservers that I'm using instead?

Thanks for the help!

Mark

yes, I think the settings are in resolv.conf, however I don't think you can use Zone Edit's nameservers - you'd have to ask them to be sure.

Ok, I fixed my resolv.conf to use my ISP's nameservers, but emails are still not sent out! I checked my email account and these are the errors that come up now:

Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 00:10:48 -0500
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@evom.evolutionm.net>
To: apache@evom.evolutionm.net
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
Parts/Attachments:
1 Shown 12 lines Text
2 Shown 353 bytes Message, "Delivery Status"
3 Shown 521 bytes Message, "[evolutionm.net submission] Just Testing"
3.1 Shown 4 lines Text
----------------------------------------

The original message was received at Thu, 15 Aug 2002 00:10:46 -0500
from apache@localhost

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
mmodaressi@radix.net
(reason: 553 5.1.8 <apache@evom.evolutionm.net>... Domain of sender address apache@evom.evolutionm.net does not exist)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mail1.radix.net.:
>>> MAIL From:<apache@evom.evolutionm.net> SIZE=262
<<< 553 5.1.8 <apache@evom.evolutionm.net>... Domain of sender address apache@evom.evolutionm.net does not exist
501 5.6.0 Data format error

I'm guessing I need to alter a setting on my server to use the correct domain of mail.evolutionm.net. Any ideas how to correct this?

Thanks,

Mark