Email bounces & says: Couldn't find any host by that name

[giganetwireless]

Ubuntu 6.06
Apache 2
PostFix
CourierPOP3
Courier IMAP
Bind9
ISPConfig 2.2.16

Have got the server accessible BTW VIA web-browser- www.giganetwireless.com

I have created all email accounts that are served by this site under ISPConfig.

Using Thunderbird, if I press "Get Mail' the client connects and authenticates to the server, a cert is presented for acceptance after accepting the cert the email status is checked- Thunderbird encounters no errors- yet there is no email to retrieved.

There should be email there however!
I emailed the email address from a Yahoo account yesterday twice!
This morning in the Yahoo email account I see both emails I sent had bounced back.

<president@giganetwireless.com>:
Sorry, I couldn't find any host by that name. (#4.1.2)
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too
 long.

What would cause this type of behaviour?
Thanks for your help...

Regards

Thank you

Regards

 

[thedaver]

Yahoo cannot find your machine by dns - either A or MX record.

D.E.R. Management - IT Project Management Consulting

http://www.dermanagement.com/

 

[Ghodmode]

Is your domain name brand new? It might just take some time for it to propagate to the DNSs.

It could also be a Yahoo problem. Have you tried emailing it from another email service?

--
-- Ghodmode

Give a man a fish and he'll come back to buy more... Teach a man to fish and you're out of business.

 

[giganetwireless]

Thanks for the replies...

When I run 'dig @72.169.152.211 any giganetwireless.com' I see the following:

mailman@giganetwireless:/etc/bind$ sudo dig @72.169.152.211 any giganetwireless.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @72.169.152.211 any giganetwireless.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 26902
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;giganetwireless.com.           IN      ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
giganetwireless.com.    86400   IN      A       72.169.152.211
giganetwireless.com.    86400   IN      SOA     ns1.giganetwireless.net. web_admin.giganetwireless.com. 2007090507 28800 7200 604800 86400
giganetwireless.com.    86400   IN      NS      ns1.giganetwireless.net.
giganetwireless.com.    86400   IN      NS      ns2.giganetwireless.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns2.giganetwireless.net. 105977 IN      A       205.178.190.52

;; Query time: 7 msec
;; SERVER: 72.169.152.211#53(72.169.152.211)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep  5 12:00:18 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 170

The domain is not new...
I haven't tried mailing from another service though!!
I'll give that a try.
I did try emailing from another of my own accounts 'presisdent <at> 800coolstuff <dot> com' which is on another server to 'president <at> giganetwireless <dot> com'.
My Outgoing SMTP used in my email client is 'mail.giganetwireless.com'...

When I attempt to send from 'presisdent <at> 800coolstuff <dot> com' TO 'president <at> giganetwireless <dot> com' I am prompted to enter the passsword for the email account 'president <at> giganetwireless <dot> com' on 'mail.giganetwireless.com'- but the server never accepts the password in this case??

While composing this post I did recieve email from the system [source]:

From - Wed Sep 05 10:02:38 2007
X-Account-Key: account1
X-UIDL: 1189011627.14523_0.giganetwireless.com
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-Path: <root@giganetwireless.com>
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on giganetwireless.com
X-Spam-Level: **
X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.9 required=5.0 tests=NO_RELAYS,TVD_SPACE_RATIO
	autolearn=no version=3.2.3
X-Original-To: root
Delivered-To: web1_pres@giganetwireless.com
Received: by giganetwireless.com (Postfix, from userid 0)
	id 442B4106CA; Wed,  5 Sep 2007 10:00:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: root@giganetwireless.com (Cron Daemon)
To: root@giganetwireless.com
Subject: Cron <root@giganetwireless> /root/ispconfig/php/php /root/ispconfig/scripts/shell/check_mx.php
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
Message-Id: <20070905170002.442B4106CA@giganetwireless.com>
Date: Wed,  5 Sep 2007 10:00:02 -0700 (PDT)
X-Virus-Status: No
X-Virus-Checker-Version: clamassassin 1.2.4 with clamscan / ClamAV 0.91.2/4166/Wed Sep  5 08:20:22 2007

Could not open input file: /root/ispconfig/scripts/shell/check_mx.php

Hmm I just found that I have a lame nameserver using DNSLookup.

Here is the contents of my zone file:

mailman@giganetwireless:/etc/bind$ sudo cat pri.giganetwireless.com
$TTL        86400
@       IN      SOA     ns1.giganetwireless.net. web_admin.giganetwireless.com. (
                        2007090507       ; serial, todays date + todays serial #
                        28800              ; refresh, seconds
                        7200              ; retry, seconds
                        604800              ; expire, seconds
                        86400 )            ; minimum, seconds
;
                NS      ns1.giganetwireless.net.              ; Inet Address of name server 1
                NS      ns2.giganetwireless.net.              ; Inet Address of name server 2
;

giganetwireless.com  MX      10 mail.giganetwireless.com.

giganetwireless.com.      A        72.169.152.211
www       A       72.169.152.211
ns2       A       205.178.190.52
ns1       A       205.178.190.52
webmail       A       72.169.152.211
login       A       72.169.152.210
mail       A       72.169.152.211

ftp       CNAME  giganetwireless.com.

mail.giganetwireless.com.       TXT  "v=spf1 mx ptr ?all"

;;;; MAKE MANUAL ENTRIES BELOW THIS LINE! ;;;;

I use nameservers from my other domain giganetwireless.net as it has Managed DNS whereas giganetwireless.com does not have Managed DNS from the same registrar.

What's wierd is when I am at

http://www.zoneedit.com/lookup.html?

and run lookups on giganetwireless.com it always states that there are no MX or CNAMES!

But how can this be?
In ISPConfig I have defined both a CNAME and MX records.

I am completely open to any other suggestions ;-)

Thank you Regards

 

[GunnarD]

giganetwireless.net does not exists!

dig giganetwireless.net ns

; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> giganetwireless.net ns
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 15084
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;giganetwireless.net. IN NS

;; Query time: 209 msec
;; WHEN: Thu Sep 6 08:52:24 2007
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 37


If i ask for dns servers for giganetwireless.com i got this

dig giganetwireless.com ns

; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> giganetwireless.com ns
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51457
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;giganetwireless.com. IN NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
giganetwireless.com. 28440 IN NS ns1.dnsexit.com.
giganetwireless.com. 28440 IN NS ns2.dnsexit.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.dnsexit.com. 54337 IN A 63.223.76.173
ns2.dnsexit.com. 54337 IN A 64.182.102.188

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; WHEN: Thu Sep 6 08:53:19 2007
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 113