DNS is driving me crazy

[Oren Held]

On Tuesday, 10 March 2009 17:50:18 Herouth Maoz wrote:
> Quoting Gabor Szabo <szabgab at gmail.com>:
> > www	3600	IN	CNAME	s5.hostlocal.com
> > szabgab.com	3600	IN	CNAME	s5.hostlocal.com
> >
> > @	3600	IN	MX	10	s6.hostlocal.com.
> >
> >
> > Is that how it should be? With the trailing . on the MS record ?
> >
> > dig   @ns44.domaincontrol.com szabgab.com MX
> >
> > does not seem to show me any MX record
>
> Well, I'm not exactly an expert, but your MX record certainly isn't
> propagated - I think the above definition must be wrong. Why does it
> say "@" where it's supposed to say mail.szabgab.com?

Wrong, instead of the "@" should be szabgab.com and not mail.szabgab.com - 
because he wants user at szabgab.com mail addresses.

Indeed the @ looks suspicious, unless it says "use the previously used domain" 
(whitespace, and not "@", in bind's zone files), it might be the cause of the 
problem.

 - Oren