Hi all,
I’m setting up a mail server on an Ubuntu droplet. I had to change the droplet name to the fqdn per some other threads on this forum.
droplet name: mail.mydomain.com
dig MX mydomain.com returns the mx:
dig MX mydomain.com +short @ ns1.digitalocean.com
0 mail.mydomain.com.
dig MX mail.mydomain.com +short @ ns1.digitalocean.com
Does not return anything.
In Ubuntu,
hostname returns mail hostname -d returns mydomain.com hostname --fqdn returns mail.mydomain.com
In the DigitalOcean web gui, under mydomain.com I can see the records.
MX 0 mail.mydomain.com.
When I use mxtoolbox.com on mx mail.mydomain.com, I get back “No mx Records exist” If I query mx mydomain.com I get back: Pref Hostname IP Address TTL 0 mail.mydomain.com {No A Record} 30 min
So it’s like the mx record doesn’t work with the fqdn, but only the domain.tld
Any ideas on how to fix?
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I added the A record and mxtools completes the lookup for the domain.tld
Thank you for the follow ups!
Overall, it was my error on thinking the mx lookup should also work against the fqdn. Thanks again!
You need an A record for “mail.256k.com”. In DO control panel add an A record Should end up looking like your 256k.com A record
mail.256k.com. 1800 IN A 107.170.38.67