Really need a little help here as I'm starting to feel like I haven't got a clue what I'm doing!
I've been trying to get through the Professional test but continually get the "Your MX does not appear to have working RDNS " message. I've been at this now for two days and I'm no further forward, so I'm obviously missing something...
Running dig I get:
$ dig mx vostoksix.info
; <<>> DiG 9.7.1 <<>> mx vostoksix.info
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48657
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 6
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;vostoksix.info. IN MX
;; ANSWER SECTION:
vostoksix.info. 300 IN MX 10 vostoksix.info.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
vostoksix.info. 22563 IN NS ns2.he.net.
vostoksix.info. 22563 IN NS ns4.he.net.
vostoksix.info. 22563 IN NS ns1.he.net.
vostoksix.info. 22563 IN NS ns5.he.net.
vostoksix.info. 22563 IN NS ns3.he.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
vostoksix.info. 300 IN AAAA 2001:470:1f0b:823::1
ns1.he.net. 86100 IN A 216.218.130.2
ns2.he.net. 86100 IN A 216.218.131.2
ns2.he.net. 86100 IN AAAA 2001:470:200::2
ns3.he.net. 86100 IN A 216.218.132.2
ns3.he.net. 86100 IN AAAA 2001:470:300::2
;; Query time: 258 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Thu May 5 13:02:57 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 276
Am I supposed to have my own DNS server for this?
Thanks for any help, getting a little despondent, truth be told :(
And when you dig -x 2001:470:1f0b:823::1 ? (Thats the RDNS)
Thanks for the reply. The output from that dig:
$ dig -x 2001:470:1f0b:823::1
; <<>> DiG 9.7.1 <<>> -x 2001:470:1f0b:823::1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45910
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.3.2.8.0.b.0.f.1.0.7.4.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa. IN PTR
;; ANSWER SECTION:
1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.3.2.8.0.b.0.f.1.0.7.4.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa. 0 IN PTR vladlink.
;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Thu May 5 14:43:30 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 112
Curiously, it's finding my ISP?
Thanks anyway but I worked it out, so this can be closed.