Ok, the other day all of a sudden all my emails started to bounce. Through the help Curtis Stuart in the data center he determined that my /etc/resolv.conf was wrong... it had worked just fine up until now.
I changed the /etc/resolv.conf
from:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 207.218.245.135
nameserver 207.218.247.135
to:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 207.218.192.38
nameserver 207.218.192.39
That fixed my email bouncing problem however at the same time another problem started occuring.
I also run ircd on the server for a few guys to chat in the evening. On the same day the emails started bouncing when someone, anyone trys to connect to my ircd server it hangs for about a minute and says:
10:35 -irc.indywebdesign.com- *** Looking up your hostname
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10:35 -irc.indywebdesign.com- *** Checking Ident
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* Identd request from 66.98.180.230
* Identd replied: 2341, 6667 : USERID : UNIX : WreckRman2
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10:35 -irc.indywebdesign.com- *** Got ident response
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10:36 -irc.indywebdesign.com- *** Couldn't look up your hostname
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This started the same time as when the emails started bouncing. NOTHING was changed on my end that night but all of a sudden my ircd couldn't resolve a hostname and my emails started bouncing unrouteable mail domain.
Changing the resolv.conf fixed my email problem but nothing I have done has fixed the ircd problem.
Everything worked just fine before that morning so I honestly feel EV1 changed something on their end that started all of this but what?
If I do a reverse lookup everything seems to be correct but it;s obvious that it's a DNS issue but where. I use EV1's DNS control panel and do not run my own DNS... yet.
Any help would be great.