DNS is driving me crazy

[Gabor Szabo]

2009/3/10 Herouth Maoz <herouth at spamcop.net>:
> On 10/03/2009, at 21:33, Oren Held wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Ah, right, I guess. The following confused me:
>
> I'd like to have www.szabgab.com and szabgab.com to resolve to
> s5.hostlocal.com while
> mail.szabgab.com to resolve to  s6.hostlocal.com and that all mail sent to
> @szabgab.com should be processed by   s6.hostlocal.com
>
> So actually there is no need to define mail.szabgab.com at all - unless he
> wants to make it a cname for some protocol other than SMTP.
> Herouth

As it turns out there

I had szabgab.com configured as CNAME so no matter what did I do with the MX
record it was not taken into account.

I changed now and I have set it up as an A record pointing to the s5 machine

@	3600	IN	A	207.158.15.132

mail is a CNAME pointing to s6, though I only use it for http access for
my mailing lists: http://mail.szabgab.com/

mail	3600	IN	CNAME	s6.hostlocal.com

And the MX record looks like this:

szabgab.com.	3600	IN	MX	0	s6.hostlocal.com.


This works now but it means I'll have more work every time I need to move server
and the DNS interface of Godaddy is so slow!


Anyway, thanks for the suggestions, it pointed me to the right direction.

Gabor