ISPConfig & Nameserver

[StevenD]

Hi All,

Sorry I am new to this, and could do with a quick explanation of how nameservers work.

OK a little about the system.

I followed the ISPConfig perfect install on Debian, and found no problem a great tutorial.

My setup.

Debian IP Address - 192.168.0.3
this is static from my router.
Router IP address is dynamic.
I have setup a forwarding using noip.com

Now my questions regard pointing a domain address to one of the webs?

1: - Nameserver - do i need to set this up locally? if so is 192.168.0.3 a valid ip address for the nameserver?
2: - If i do need to set one up locally what should the name be and does this need registering anywhere else? For example how will 123reg.com now where my nameserver address comes from?
3: - I already have a domain name with an existing host, how do I transfer that name across to my server?

As you can probably tell I have no idea how nameservers work, for example if I point towards a local nameserver how does it now which domains webpage to open?

Any help for this complete noob would be gratefully received.
Or any direction towards good tutorials.

Thanks

Steve

[StevenD]

Sorry just realised I have put this in the wrong section, can someone please move it to ISPConfig Forum

Thanks

Steve

[lubos]

Hi Steven

I will try to explain how ISPConfig works on dynamic IP address.

First of all you MUST have nameservers with static IP address. There is no way around it. And no, internal IP address is not enough for nameserver to work properly. You need static external IP address. If you can't get static external IP address from you internet provider, you have to set domain servers with some redirection service (such as no-ip.com) and use their nameservers for your domain.

What to do:
a) you have to set nameservers in your 123-reg account to nameservers given to you by no-ip.com (I have 123-reg account as well if you need help with that, give me a shout and I'll help you).
b) you have to set your dns entries in your account with no-ip.com and set their service to update your router IP address automaticaly (I do not have that account so I acn't helpyou with that but they will have surely some info on their website)
c) you should not set dns records in ISPConfig
d) when creating domain in ISPConfig, you have to set your IP address to 192.168.0.3, your nameservers on no-ip.com, ISPConfig on your server and your router will make sure that relevant website will be displayed

Best of all is to get static address from your internet provider if this is possible.

[StevenD]

Hi,

Thanks for ypour reply.

This is what I have done since.

NoIP forwards the domain mydomain.servehttp.com to my dynamic ip.

I have set up in 123Reg to forward my domain name mydomain.co.uk to mydomain.servehttp.com that all works fine.

I have now setup ISPConfig with the site mydomian.co.uk, but now when I type in www.mydomain.co.uk I get the sharedip page. Is there a way around this?

Thanks

Steve

[falko]

What's in Vhosts_ispconfig.conf, and what's the output of ifconfig?

[StevenD]

Hi Falko,

The if config returned the following.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:2A:EF:4C:6F
inet addr:192.168.2.3 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:2aff:feef:4c6f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:91018 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:59775 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:77131065 (73.5 MiB) TX bytes:10179129 (9.7 MiB)
Interrupt:169 Base address:0xe200

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:7348 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7348 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2887729 (2.7 MiB) TX bytes:2887729 (2.7 MiB)


This is the contents of Vhosts_ispconfig.conf file
###################################
#
# ISPConfig vHost Configuration File
# Version 1.0
#
###################################
#
NameVirtualHost 192.168.2.3:80
<VirtualHost 192.168.2.3:80>
ServerName localhost
ServerAdmin root@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/sharedip
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
#
#
######################################
# Vhost: www.mydomain.co.uk:80
######################################
#
#
<VirtualHost 192.168.2.3:80>
ServerName www.mydomain.co.uk:80
ServerAdmin webmaster@mydomain.co.uk
DocumentRoot /var/www/web8/web
ServerAlias mydomain.co.uk
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php5 index.php4 index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi index.pl index.jsp Default.htm default.htm
Alias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/web8/cgi-bin/
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AddHandler cgi-script .pl
ErrorLog /var/www/web8/log/error.log
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5
php_admin_flag safe_mode On
php_admin_value open_basedir /var/www/web8/
php_admin_value file_uploads 1
php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/www/web8/phptmp/
php_admin_value session.save_path /var/www/web8/phptmp/
<IfModule mod_ruby.c>
<Directory /var/www/web8/web>
Options +ExecCGI
</Directory>
RubyRequire apache/ruby-run
#RubySafeLevel 0
<Files *.rb>
SetHandler ruby-object
RubyHandler Apache::RubyRun.instance
</Files>
<Files *.rbx>
SetHandler ruby-object
RubyHandler Apache::RubyRun.instance
</Files>
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_python.c>
<Directory /var/www/web8/web>
Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
Order allow,deny
allow from all
AddHandler mod_python .py
PythonHandler mod_python.publisher
PythonDebug On
</Directory>
</IfModule>
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
Alias /error/ "/var/www/web8/web/error/"
ErrorDocument 400 /error/invalidSyntax.html
ErrorDocument 401 /error/authorizationRequired.html
ErrorDocument 403 /error/forbidden.html
ErrorDocument 404 /error/fileNotFound.html
ErrorDocument 405 /error/methodNotAllowed.html
ErrorDocument 500 /error/internalServerError.html
ErrorDocument 503 /error/overloaded.html
AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web8/user/$1/web/$3
AliasMatch ^/users/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web8/user/$1/web/$3
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
#
#
#

Thanks

Steve

[falko]

Looks ok. Does mydomain.co.uk point to your router's public IP address? You can check that with
dig mydomain.co.uk

[StevenD]

Hi Falko,

That dig returned some information, but where do I compare that information to?

You mentioned my routers public IP Address? where is this I have a belkin router.

These are the headings I have in the control panel of the router.

Wan IP, Default Gateway, DNS Address, IP Address

Thanks

Steve

[falko]

The WAN IP is your public IP address.

[StevenD]

Hi Falko,

Thanks for all your help so far and your patience.

No they do not match.

This is the output from dig.

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1.1 <<>> www.f-football.co.uk
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 20819
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.f-football.co.uk. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.f-football.co.uk. 86400 IN A 194.154.164.82

;; Query time: 24 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.2.1#53(192.168.2.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Nov 2 16:26:21 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 54


My Wan / Public IP starts with 77....

Checked the 194.154.164.82 and that is where my domain name is regeistered ie www.123-reg.co.uk site.

Just to reiterate what I have setup in case I have misled.

1. Registered with NOIP who allow me to redirect www.mydomain.servehttp.com to my dynamic IP address.
2. Bought a domain name from 123-reg.co.uk and forwarded/redirected it to www.mydomain.servehttp.com

Thanks

Steve

[falko]

2. Bought a domain name from 123-reg.co.uk and forwarded/redirected it to www.mydomain.servehttp.com

Thanks

Steve

I think the redirect is the problem. It's not pointing to your server, but instead to another server which takes the request and redirects it to your server. Please create a CNAME record instead that points to www.mydomain.servehttp.com.

[StevenD]

Hi Falko,

Thanks, I think I am almost there now.

I have found the page on 123-reg.co.uk to update my dns on there servers.

I have a number of options.

Name - Type - Content
@ - A - 194.154.164.82
ftp - CNAME - mydomain.co.uk
mx0 - 212.xx.xxx.xxx
mx1 - mx0.123-reg.co.uk
www - A - 194.154.164.82

1 - Which of these do I need to change?
2 - Will it take 24-48 hours for the change to take effect?
3- Do I need to change the web forwarding?
4- Once done should dig then point to my public ip?

Sorry for all the questions, and thanks for being such a great help.

Steve

[falko]

Change the @ and www records and make them CNAME records to www.mydomain.servehttp.com.

[lubos]

Furthermore if you would like to get emails on your sever delete this two records:
mx0 - 212.xx.xxx.xxx
mx1 - mx0.123-reg.co.uk

and create your own MX in this format:

mail.mydomain.co.uk


plus create following record:

mail CNAME www.mydomain.servehttp.com (http://www.mydomain.servehttp.com/)

(You do not have to do that if you have record
@ CNAME www.mydomain.servehttp.com (http://www.mydomain.servehttp.com/)
as this is so called 'willd' record substituting for any other records.
To explain it further DNS rules ask for MX records to point to A records. However that shortcut above should work even if this is not exactly 'clean')

Remember, if you'll not use your own emails, you'll have to pay to 123reg for email services and set your emails with them.

As I can see your in UK. Depending on your requirements, I can help you with your hosting demands (I am preparing few Virtual Servers in London, all with installed and set ISPConfig on them with optional support for ISPConfig and each of them at least with 3 IP adresses - depends on size of VPS) If you are interested, send PM.
Lubos

[StevenD]

Hi,

Thank you both for your replies.

Just 1 more question, do I need to setup anything in my router with regards to Virtual Server. If so what settings do I need to do.

i.e I have the following boxes

Add - This contains a drop down list - maybe webserver (http)?
Enable - Checkbox
Description - TextBox
Inbound Port - 2 boxes seperated by an hyphen.
Type - TCP/UDP
Private IP Address -
Private port - 2 boxes seperated by an hyphen.

Thanks

Steve

[StevenD]

Hi,

Right everything now seems to be setup correctly, although,
1:- From external I get the shared ip page
2:- From my LAN I get my routers configuration page.

So just to reiterate what I have done.

NOIP setup - points to my dynamic IP.

NoIP account - differentdomain.servehttp.com points automatically to my external dynamic IP Address.

My domain name registration - www.123-reg.co.uk

www.mydomain.co.uk is registered with www.123-reg.co.uk
The www CName is set to differentdomain.servehttp.com
The @ CName is set to differentdomain.servehttp.com
www.mydomain.co.uk redirected to differentdomain.servehttp.com

The dig www.mydomain.co.uk now points to my external ip address. and says that the cname is differentdomain.servehttp.com

Hope this makes sense.

Again thanks for your time.

Steve

[lubos]

If I get it right I think that you do not need to set your router for website access as you are able to get to sharedIP page from outside. However you need to set static internal IP for your server on your server and in ISPConfig.

EDIT: I just find out on the top of this thread that you have already static IP from your router so skip to step 2. I will leave the step 1. here for others to have it.

1. vi /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx /here you need to put your static internal address/
netmask 255.255.255.128 /this has to be your routers netmask/
network xxx.xxx.xxx.yyy /this has to be your internal network/
broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.zzz
gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.www /this has to be your routers static IP - Internal/
# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
dns-nameservers aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa /this has to be your Internet providers nameservers/
post-up ethtool -K eth0 tx off


2. In ISPConfig in section Management=> Server => Settings put your servers internal IP into field for IP list.
3. Change all websites IP addresses in ISPManager to your internal static IP address (see img bellow). Afterwards you should be able to access your websites from outside.
1132

You can check my post http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showpost.php?p=94082&postcount=2 regarding internal and external IP in ISPConfig.
(I did that some time ago when I was on dynamic IP as well. Hope I remembered it right :rolleyes: but better write down all what you do and if something will go southward you'll be able to change all back :D)

[falko]

Hi,

Right everything now seems to be setup correctly, although,
1:- From external I get the shared ip pageWhat's in Vhosts_ispconfig.conf, and what's the output of ifconfig?
2:- From my LAN I get my routers configuration page.

What did you type in your browser's address bar? www.mydomain.co.uk or anything else?

[StevenD]

Hi Falko,

Here's the contents of VHosts_ispconfig.conf

###################################
#
# ISPConfig vHost Configuration File
# Version 1.0
#
###################################
#
NameVirtualHost 192.168.2.3:80
<VirtualHost 192.168.2.3:80>
ServerName localhost
ServerAdmin root@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/sharedip
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
#
#
######################################
# Vhost: www.mydomain.co.uk:80
######################################
#
#
<VirtualHost 192.168.2.3:80>
ServerName www.mydomain.co.uk:80
ServerAdmin webmaster@mydomain.co.uk
DocumentRoot /var/www/web8/web
ServerAlias f-football.co.uk
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php5 index.php4 index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi index.pl index.jsp Default.htm default.htm
Alias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/web8/cgi-bin/
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AddHandler cgi-script .pl
ErrorLog /var/www/web8/log/error.log
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5
php_admin_flag safe_mode On
php_admin_value open_basedir /var/www/web8/
php_admin_value file_uploads 1
php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/www/web8/phptmp/
php_admin_value session.save_path /var/www/web8/phptmp/
<IfModule mod_ruby.c>
<Directory /var/www/web8/web>
Options +ExecCGI
</Directory>
RubyRequire apache/ruby-run
#RubySafeLevel 0
<Files *.rb>
SetHandler ruby-object
RubyHandler Apache::RubyRun.instance
</Files>
<Files *.rbx>
SetHandler ruby-object
RubyHandler Apache::RubyRun.instance
</Files>
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_python.c>
<Directory /var/www/web8/web>
Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
Order allow,deny
allow from all
AddHandler mod_python .py
PythonHandler mod_python.publisher
PythonDebug On
</Directory>
</IfModule>
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
Alias /error/ "/var/www/web8/web/error/"
ErrorDocument 400 /error/invalidSyntax.html
ErrorDocument 401 /error/authorizationRequired.html
ErrorDocument 403 /error/forbidden.html
ErrorDocument 404 /error/fileNotFound.html
ErrorDocument 405 /error/methodNotAllowed.html
ErrorDocument 500 /error/internalServerError.html
ErrorDocument 503 /error/overloaded.html
AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web8/user/$1/web/$3
AliasMatch ^/users/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web8/user/$1/web/$3
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
#
#
#

ifconfig returned
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:2A:EF:4C:6F
inet addr:192.168.2.3 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:2aff:feef:4c6f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:713100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:718881 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:162484815 (154.9 MiB) TX bytes:174411771 (166.3 MiB)
Interrupt:169 Base address:0xe200

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:16215 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16215 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6321355 (6.0 MiB) TX bytes:6321355 (6.0 MiB)



in my browsers address bar I just typed in [url]www.mydomain.co.uk/url]

Thanks

Steve

[StevenD]

Hi Both,

Sorted it now works. I did have to open up my ports on the router. Also had to restart the server.

Now from outside my website is displayed straight from typing in the purchased domain name.

Lubos, I checked those IP Address that you pointed me towards and they were fine already.

Thank you to both of you for your help and perserverance with me, hopefully this topic will come in handy for someone else who is trying to do the same thing as me.

All I have got to do now is to get it to show my webpages when I open a browser that is connected to my LAN rather than showing me the router page.

Thanks Again.

Steve

[lubos]

Your welcome, make sure that you use dns-nameservers of your internet provider in all three, router, server and your PC internet settings and you should be able to connect to your website from inside of LAN. If you use your internal domain servers (router's or server's) it can point to your router. Who is your IPS btw? If its Virgin or NTL you can use 192.168.4.100 and 192.168.8.100. Other I do not know.

[StevenD]

Hi,

Just a quick question about setting up the mail.

I setup an email account on isp for www.mydomain.co.uk lets say test@mydomain.co.uk.

I can log into squirrel mail on this domain. Now if I send an email to test@mydomain.co.uk I get the following failure notice.

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<test@mydomain.co.uk>:
77.xxx.xxx.xxx does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 554 5.7.1 <test@mydomain.servehttp.com>: Relay access denied
Giving up on 77.xxx.xxx.xxx.

Now the IP address given is the IP Address of my server, so the @ CNAME is working correctly at 123-reg.co.uk but it seems to be getting rejected by my server.

Is it because mydomain is re-routed through NOIP to my dynamic IP address?

Or have I missed something during the setup of ISPConfig?

Thanks

Steve

[StevenD]

Hi,

Here is a bit more info.

This is from mail.log.ispconfigsave. I tried to send mail to a yahoo account from squirrelmail from ste@mydomain.co.uk but it looks like it tried to send it from web8_ste@example.com???

Nov 11 21:22:25 server postfix/smtp[8839]: B1D252DC6D6: host mx2.mail.eu.yahoo.com[77.238.177.142] refused to talk to me: 553 Mail from 77.xxx.xxx.xxx not allowed - 5.7.1 [BL21] Connections not accepted from IP addresses on Spamhaus PBL; see http://postmaster.yahoo.com/550-bl21.html [550

This is the part of the log if I try sending in the opposite direction ie yahoo to ste@mydomain.co.uk

Nov 12 12:57:09 server postfix/smtpd[26770]: connect from web25808.mail.ukl.yahoo.com[217.12.10.193]
Nov 12 12:57:09 server postfix/smtpd[26770]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from web25808.mail.ukl.yahoo.com[217.12.10.193]: 554 5.7.1 <ste@myserver.servehttp.com>: Relay access denied; from=<myyahoo@yahoo.co.uk> to=<ste@myserver.servehttp.com> proto=SMTP helo=<web25808.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Nov 12 12:57:09 server postfix/smtpd[26770]: disconnect from web25808.mail.ukl.yahoo.com[217.12.10.193]

Thanks

Steve

[falko]

What's the output of
dig mx mydomain.co.uk?

Hi,

Here is a bit more info.

This is from mail.log.ispconfigsave. I tried to send mail to a yahoo account from squirrelmail from ste@mydomain.co.uk but it looks like it tried to send it from web8_ste@example.com???

You must set the correct sender address in the SquirrelMail settings of your account.

[StevenD]

Hi Falko,

Contents of dig mx mydomain.co.uk is this.

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1.1 <<>> mx mydomain.co.uk
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28347
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mydomain.co.uk. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mydomain.co.uk. 86400 IN CNAME myserver.servehttp.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
servehttp.com. 60 IN SOA nf1.no-ip.com. hostmaster.no-ip. com. 2007134962 90 120 604800 60

;; Query time: 448 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.2.1#53(192.168.2.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Nov 12 17:57:38 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 128


Also I have had a look into the problem with yahoo, rejecting the email because it is from an ip address
553 5.7.1 [BL21] Connections not accepted from IP addresses on Spamhaus PBL

In our continuing efforts to protect our users from unsolicited email, Yahoo! Mail does not accept SMTP connections from dynamic or residential IP addresses, as determined by the Spamhaus PBL. If you are seeing this error message, please do not retry sending your message using the same IP address. Instead, please contact your ISP for information on which SMTP server you are authorized to use for your outbound email.

If you think that your IP address has been listed in error, you or your email administrator should contact Spamhaus. Once your IP is de-listed by Spamhaus, Yahoo! Mail will automatically unblock your IP within 48 hours.

Have I set something up incorrectly or is it always sent via an IP address?

Just a note it works fine if I send to an email address that is not yahoo, but that is not very good for any clients.

Thanks

Steve

[falko]

The problem is that you're sending from a dynamic IP address, and most dynamic IP addresses are blacklisted nowadays.

You can relay through another mail server to circumvent this: http://www.howtoforge.com/postfix_relaying_through_another_mailserver

[StevenD]

Hi Falko,

Thanks for that, I will try to set it up to relay the messages.

Could you help me with the problem I have as to me not receiving emails?

Thanks

Steve

[falko]

Your MX record is looking weird. You did a dig mx mydomain.co.uk, and in the ANSWER section it shows a CNAME instead of an MX. I've never seen this before. Can you post the real domain name so that I can test myself?

[StevenD]

Hi Falko,

Its www.f-football.co.uk

This is being rerouted from 123-reg.co.uk where I purchased my domain name from, so i setup the DNS as you said with @ CNAME writables.servehttp.com and www CNAME writables.servehttp.com

The writables.servehttp.com is from NOIP.com that points to my dynamic ip.

Thanks

Steve

[falko]

I'm getting this as well:

mh1:~# dig mx f-football.co.uk

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> mx f-football.co.uk
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59898
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;f-football.co.uk. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
f-football.co.uk. 86400 IN CNAME writables.servehttp.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
servehttp.com. 60 IN SOA nf1.no-ip.com. hostmaster.no-ip.com. 2007144169 90 120 604800 60

;; Query time: 248 msec
;; SERVER: 213.191.92.84#53(213.191.92.84)
;; WHEN: Sat Nov 15 13:21:52 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 128

mh1:~#

Can you try to set up the MX record as follows?

f-football.co.uk. IN MX 10 writables.servehttp.com.

[StevenD]

Hi Falko,

I have adjusted that and I now get.

<<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1.1 <<>> mx f-football.co.uk
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39248
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;f-football.co.uk. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
f-football.co.uk. 86400 IN MX 10 writables.servehttp.com.

;; Query time: 62 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.2.1#53(192.168.2.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Nov 16 10:46:39 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 73


If I send an email internally on ISP i.e. from ste at f-football.co.uk I get it see below header information.

Return-Path: <ste@f-football.co.uk>
X-Original-To: ste@f-football.co.uk
Delivered-To: web8_ste@server.home2
Received: from 192.168.2.3 (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by server.home2 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 556312DC59B
for <ste@f-football.co.uk>; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:05:46 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from 192.168.2.3
(SquirrelMail authenticated user web8_ste)
by www.writables.co.uk with HTTP;
Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:05:46 -0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <43782.192.168.2.3.1226833546.squirrel@www.writable s.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:05:46 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Testing from myself
From: ste@f-football.co.uk
To: ste@f-football.co.uk
Reply-To: ste@f-football.co.uk
User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Confirm-Reading-To: ste@f-football.co.uk
Disposition-Notification-To: ste@f-football.co.uk
Return-Receipt-To: ste@f-football.co.uk

If I send externally i.e from ste at f-football.co.uk to another domain on a different server I get the following header.
Return-path: <ste@f-football.co.uk>
Envelope-to: sales@otherdomain.co.uk
Delivery-date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:52:28 -0500
Received: from 77-xxx-xxx-xxx.myisp.co.uk ([77.xxx.xxx.xxx] helo=server.home2)
by server.ezytools.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)
(Exim 4.69)
(envelope-from <ste@f-football.co.uk>)
id 1L1fEw-00042K-2J
for sales@writables.co.uk; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:52:26 -0500
Received: from 192.168.2.3 (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by server.home2 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34BF72DC59B
for <sales@writables.co.uk>; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:52:23 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from 192.168.2.3
(SquirrelMail authenticated user web8_ste)
by www.writables.co.uk with HTTP;
Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:52:23 -0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <56250.192.168.2.3.1226832743.squirrel@www.writable s.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:52:23 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: {Spam?} Test123
From: ste@f-football.co.uk
To: sales@otherdomain.co.uk
Reply-To: ste@f-football.co.uk
User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
X-Confirm-Reading-To: ste@f-football.co.uk
Disposition-Notification-To: ste@f-football.co.uk
Return-Receipt-To: ste@f-football.co.uk
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-ExyMemset-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information
X-ExyMemset-MailScanner-ID: 1L1fEw-00042K-2J
X-ExyMemset-MailScanner: Found to be clean
X-ExyMemset-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (not cached,
score=5.156, required 5, BAYES_50 0.00, RCVD_IN_PBL 0.91,
RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.10, TVD_RCVD_IP 1.93, TVD_SPACE_RATIO 2.22)
X-ExyMemset-MailScanner-SpamScore: sssss
X-ExyMemset-MailScanner-From: ste@f-football.co.uk
X-ExyMemset-MailScanner-Watermark: 1227437546.68634@T5trzJ390slPm2TqLyhaLg

But if I now send from external to ste at f-football.co.uk, I get no error message back, but i don't receive the email at ste at f-football.co.uk either.

Thanks again

Steve

[falko]

But if I now send from external to ste at f-football.co.uk, I get no error message back, but i don't receive the email at ste at f-football.co.uk either.

Thanks again

Steve

Do you see anything in your mail log when you send an email to your account? If there's nothing in the mail log, that means that the mail goes somewhere else - probably because your DNS changes haven't fully propagated yet. This can take up to 72 hours.

[StevenD]

Thanks Falko,

All up and running now.