Problems with NS and MX records
Earlier today (about 12 hours ago) I switched the NS records for my domain jakowicz.com to point at my Linode, Bluehost was the previous host.
I have also configured the MX records to now point at my Linode and created the mail user. Strangely I am able to send and receive emails. Because it seems my old host still has come control of the domain it seems.
My /var/log/mail.log doesn't get updated when I send or receive emails on this address, also these are the headers when I receive emails from
> Delivered-To:
Received: by 10.70.45.233 with SMTP id q9csp79760pdm; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 09:04:59 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from outbound-ss-565.hostmonster.com (outbound-ss-565.hostmonster.com. [67.20.97.212]) by mx.google.com with SMTP id ad5si4925337pad.149.2014.09.05.09.04.58 for <
simon.jakowicz@gmail.com >; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:04:58 -0700 (PDT)Received: (qmail 21083 invoked by uid 0); 5 Sep 2014 16:04:58 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO CMOut01) (67.20.127.201) by soproxy6.mail.unifiedlayer.com with SMTP; 5 Sep 2014 16:04:58 -0000
Received: from box945.bluehost.com ([69.195.124.145]) by CMOut01 with id nU4t1o01B38LLCt01U4wny; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:04:56 -0600
Received: from [81.107.210.31] (port=54871 helo=[192.168.0.13]) by box945.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from <
simon@jakowicz.com >) id 1XPw0M-00021o-FA forsimon.jakowicz@gmail.com ; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:04:54 -0600X-Received: by 10.70.56.10 with SMTP id w10mr22777757pdp.135.1409933099043; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:04:59 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <
simon@jakowicz.com >Received-Spf: none (google.com:
simon@jakowicz.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) client-ip=67.20.97.212;Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com:
simon@jakowicz.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) smtp.mail=simon@jakowicz.com ; dkim=neutral (no key for signature) header.i=@X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=LbyvtFvi c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=bK0cV3TGnrXVbK90YeSjwg==:117 a=bK0cV3TGnrXVbK90YeSjwg==:17 a=cNaOj0WVAAAA:8 a=f5113yIGAAAA:8 a=UbJnmqAYnIA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=bij8VqAIAAAA:8 a=SfxxWJ-KmhsA:10 a=KNYLPHeYxgA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=26gCbA3ug1mLzSivkzcA:9 a=CjuIK1q8ugA:10 a=cnF12FvOHk0A:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=OnYRFgmMd4A:10 a=_qt1WsnCI-gA:10 a=OunM7NyS5BEA:10
Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jakowicz.com; s=default; h=To:References:Message-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Date:In-Reply-To:From:Subject:Mime-Version:Content-Type; bh=Z5lvZNbPRGhC8sfF21vL4JTz3PjYd9Vk2LRiV3JVb8E=; b=zr8iYbKXkvXXYUvd+yTuCYfm6dMf2ysPcQQeF0IStl1QQtvYaIyzcrHUMcMEDXYgHb/c7lfGG3ca7irMSC9usGpIvi2svovWdGcbscnFFOXmqethsKxsH0VvXDRl4QBz;
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 (1878.6))
In-Reply-To: <
A020A037-A74C-417E-84CC-1F960C572E58@gmail.com >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <
2A99D86D-E155-4AB5-8FC4-A156EDF94140@jakowicz.com >References: <
A020A037-A74C-417E-84CC-1F960C572E58@gmail.com >X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6)
X-Identified-User: {1503:box945.bluehost.com:battlesi:jakowicz.com} {sentby:smtp auth 81.107.210.31 authed with
simon@jakowicz.com }
And these are the headers when I sent emails to
> Delivered-To:
Received: by 10.70.45.233 with SMTP id q9csp79760pdm; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 09:04:59 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from outbound-ss-565.hostmonster.com (outbound-ss-565.hostmonster.com. [67.20.97.212]) by mx.google.com with SMTP id ad5si4925337pad.149.2014.09.05.09.04.58 for <
simon.jakowicz@gmail.com >; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:04:58 -0700 (PDT)Received: (qmail 21083 invoked by uid 0); 5 Sep 2014 16:04:58 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO CMOut01) (67.20.127.201) by soproxy6.mail.unifiedlayer.com with SMTP; 5 Sep 2014 16:04:58 -0000
Received: from box945.bluehost.com ([69.195.124.145]) by CMOut01 with id nU4t1o01B38LLCt01U4wny; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:04:56 -0600
Received: from [81.107.210.31] (port=54871 helo=[192.168.0.13]) by box945.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from <
simon@jakowicz.com >) id 1XPw0M-00021o-FA forsimon.jakowicz@gmail.com ; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:04:54 -0600X-Received: by 10.70.56.10 with SMTP id w10mr22777757pdp.135.1409933099043; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:04:59 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <
simon@jakowicz.com >Received-Spf: none (google.com:
simon@jakowicz.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) client-ip=67.20.97.212;Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com:
simon@jakowicz.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) smtp.mail=simon@jakowicz.com ; dkim=neutral (no key for signature) header.i=@X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=LbyvtFvi c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=bK0cV3TGnrXVbK90YeSjwg==:117 a=bK0cV3TGnrXVbK90YeSjwg==:17 a=cNaOj0WVAAAA:8 a=f5113yIGAAAA:8 a=UbJnmqAYnIA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=bij8VqAIAAAA:8 a=SfxxWJ-KmhsA:10 a=KNYLPHeYxgA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=26gCbA3ug1mLzSivkzcA:9 a=CjuIK1q8ugA:10 a=cnF12FvOHk0A:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=OnYRFgmMd4A:10 a=_qt1WsnCI-gA:10 a=OunM7NyS5BEA:10
Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jakowicz.com; s=default; h=To:References:Message-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Date:In-Reply-To:From:Subject:Mime-Version:Content-Type; bh=Z5lvZNbPRGhC8sfF21vL4JTz3PjYd9Vk2LRiV3JVb8E=; b=zr8iYbKXkvXXYUvd+yTuCYfm6dMf2ysPcQQeF0IStl1QQtvYaIyzcrHUMcMEDXYgHb/c7lfGG3ca7irMSC9usGpIvi2svovWdGcbscnFFOXmqethsKxsH0VvXDRl4QBz;
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 (1878.6))
In-Reply-To: <
A020A037-A74C-417E-84CC-1F960C572E58@gmail.com >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <
2A99D86D-E155-4AB5-8FC4-A156EDF94140@jakowicz.com >References: <
A020A037-A74C-417E-84CC-1F960C572E58@gmail.com >X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6)
X-Identified-User: {1503:box945.bluehost.com:battlesi:jakowicz.com} {sentby:smtp auth 81.107.210.31 authed with
simon@jakowicz.com }Re: test
This is this is the output of an nslookup
> nslookup -query=MX mail.jakowicz.com
I get
Server: 109.74.192.20
Address: 109.74.192.20#53
Non-authoritative answer:
*** Can't find mail.jakowicz.com: No answer
Authoritative answers can be found from:
jakowicz.com
origin = ns1.linode.com
mail addr = simon.jakowicz.com
serial = 2014052876
refresh = 14400
retry = 14400
expire = 1209600
minimum = 86400
I'm a little rough on the edge of sysadmin and I honestly can't work out what is going wrong here. The DNS records look like they have propagated. Any help is very much appreciated.
Thank you
Simon
2 Replies
$ nslookup -query=MX jakowicz.com
Server: 207.192.69.4
Address: 207.192.69.4#53
Non-authoritative answer:
jakowicz.com mail exchanger = 10 mail.jakowicz.com.
Authoritative answers can be found from:
jakowicz.com nameserver = ns5.linode.com.
jakowicz.com nameserver = ns1.linode.com.
jakowicz.com nameserver = ns2.linode.com.
jakowicz.com nameserver = ns4.linode.com.
jakowicz.com nameserver = ns3.linode.com.
mail.jakowicz.com internet address = 178.79.150.38
So it looks fine to me. If emails are still going through the old one, that just means the DNS hasn't fully propagated yet. Honestly, some places ignore TTLs even if you do drop them before moving. It can still take a day or two for misconfigured stragglers to catch up. Most people should be fine now though.
Thanks for the the tip with nslookup.
As you said it was a propagation issue. Just me being impatient I guess