https://10.211.55.9:10000

What had happened was that I got confused with the various IPs – embarrassingly because I’m so used to 192.168.x.x as internal IPs, when I followed the walkthrough I got thrown by your 10.x.x.x example and put my external IP into the Bind config. When I corrected that – in other words when I actually followed what you had done !! – it all worked

I’m a happy Zimbra convert now and thanks again for the excellent guide

/neill

You’ve added the local DNS server that was creating in the how-to or did you add your ISP’s DNS server to your /etc/resolv.conf file? I’m slightly confused by your comment.. In any case, you want to have an internal DNS server so that your Zimbra server can resolve its internal IP by looking up its hostname (by your comment it looks as though you’re behind a NAT which is also the case in my how-to) as well as having an MX record that points to the A record for your Zimbra server’s hostname. You can read a bit more on the Zimbra wiki as well: http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Split_dns

Let me know if that helps or if I just made you more confused

Wyatt

DNS ERROR resolving MX for mail.mydomain.org.uk
It is suggested that the domain name have an MX record configured in DNS
Change domain name? [Yes]
Create Domain: [mail.mydomain.org.uk] mydomain.org.uk
MX: autoturn.plus.net.uk (84.92.1.15)
MX: mail.mydomain.org.uk (my.correct.static.IP)

Interface: 192.168.19.60
Interface: 127.0.0.1

DNS ERROR – none of the MX records for mydomain.org.uk
resolve to this host
It is suggested that the MX record resolve to this host
Re-Enter domain name? [Yes]

19.60 is the IP of the zimbra box and ‘plus’ is my ISP

i’m lost now !

BTW

DNS Query Results:

; <> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <> mydomain.org.uk A
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24438
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mydomain.org.uk. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mydomain.org.uk. 14400 IN A 212.159.8.91
mydomain.org.uk. 14400 IN A 212.159.9.91

;; Query time: 230 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Mon Mar 23 18:42:04 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 63

the 212. IPs are my ISP’s nameservers

thanks

/neill

I’ve followed your excellent howto closely but am failing at the last hurdle

when i run ./install.sh as you correctly note i get the following error:

DNS ERROR resolving mail.mydomain.org.uk
It is suggested that the hostname be resolveable via DNS
Change hostname [Yes]
Please enter the logical hostname for this host [mail.mydomain.org.uk] mydomain.org.uk
No results returned for A lookup of mydomain.org.uk
Checked nameservers:
localhost

clearly my MX records out in the big bad WWW can’t be accessed. do i add an ‘external’ nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf now ?

thanks

/neill