[Sysadmin] evolt dns: bad mx

[Dean Mah]

Hi,

I believe it is time to shutter this site. We need to figure out where to
migrate the lists to but that's it.

Dean

On Sep 1, 2016 7:25 AM, "David Kaufman" <david at gigawatt.com> wrote:

> Hi sysadmins!
>
> Tron used to forward mail addresses to treasurer at evolt.org to me via
> evolt at gigawatt.com
>
> But today GoDaddy asked me to verify the email address in our whois
> record today, so they sent en email to treasurer at evolt.org with a link
> for me to click on.
>
> Since I didn't get it, I began to track down why:
>
> host -t mx evolt.org
> > evolt.org mail is handled by 10 mail.evolt.org.
>
> host mail.evolt.org
> > Host mail.evolt.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>
> hmmm...
>
> so, I sent my own email to treasurer at evolt.org to see if it bounces
>
> when you're mx is bad, does mail retry for a few days and then bounce?
>
> I suppose I need to add back the missing A record for mail.evolt.org,
> and point it at tron so the qmail forwarding can be restored...
>
> Logged into tron (took a minute to find my old ssh key).  it said:
>
> No mail.
> Last login: Wed Apr 16 22:35:28 2014  <-- o m g
>
> So FYI:
>
> I found and uncommented the mail.evolt.org CNAME in
> /var/cache/bind/dns/org.evolt and pointed it a tron
>
> restarted bind9 and now that's resolving:
>
> host mail.evolt.org
> mail.evolt.org is an alias for tron.evolt.org.
> tron.evolt.org has address 67.19.208.10
>
> Now i'm trying to remember or figure out how incoming mail is
> delivered or in this case forwarded.  I thought it was qmail once upon
> a time, but looks like postfix now.  uhhhhm....
>
> -dave
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
> so, are we gonna get this vote on for
> the EvoltSysadmin mascot or what?
>