[CentOS] Bind Problem

Mon Mar 17 02:58:18 UTC 2008
Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at ActiveNetwerx.com>

> So from the CentOS box you can type something like:
> host -t mx domain.com
>
> and that works?
>
> How about this from the Windows box:
> c:\>nslookup
> > server YourCentOSName or IP
> > set type=mx
> > yourdomain.com
>
> That should work
>
> If that also works, then check the DNS server your windows box is using.
> It may have cached the DNS entry for domain.com (assuming the DNS server
> is NOT the CentOS box)
>
> You could also try an ipconfig /flushdns
>
> Shawn

Yeah, that is what I did. The windows box is using a different dns server, but as you wrote out, I switched it over in the nslookup command. Its appends the wkst's dns suffix on the query domain.com but not name.domain.com? Bizarre.

jlc