I have a domain like mydomain.com and a virtual host domain as something.mydomain.com with an IP.

My objective is that I want to send all mails directed to *.something.mydomain.com (eg xxx@yahoo.com.aa.bb.something.mydomain.com)
to a user say root in something.mydomain.com. I mean all mails coming in *.something.mydomain.com should be redirected to root@something.mydomain.com.

something.mydomain.com is also my mail server.

I am using Red Hat Linux with Bind .

I have created zone file like mydomain.com.zone in /var/named with
an wildcard Mx Entry and A record. and also pointed this file in named.conf.

But it is not working .

My zone file looks like this :


@ IN SOA ns1.mydomain.com. root.mydomain.com. (
                        2003080801 ; serial
                        28800 ; refresh
                        14400 ; retry
                        3600000 ; expire
                        86400 ; default_ttl
                        )
;name server
                   IN NS ns1.mydomain.com.
                   IN NS ns2.mydomain.com.

;mail server

*.mydomain.com. IN MX 10 someone.mydomain.com

;public server

ns1.mydomain.com IN A ip- of- primary name- server
ns2.mydomain.com IN A ip- of- slave name- server
www IN A ip- of- mail- server
ftp IN A ip- of- mail- server
mail IN A ip- of- mail- server

;end


# Now I have written in named.conf file
zone "vpscenter.com"{
        type master;
        file "vpscenter.com.zone";
        allow-transfer { ip- of- slave name- server

};

I have started named dameon.
but I am not getting the desired result.

when I sending any mail at say root@xx.yy.something.mydomain.com

It is showing Host unknown.

am I missing something?

Please advice me with detailed steps, all necessary configurations and sample code ( zone files etc) ASAP.

Thanks

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Anirban Biswas

Can you post the output of:
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf

I dunno much about setting up BIND, but assuming that your setup is right and BINDs running ok, most likely you're looking at the wrong nameserver (rather than your local box, you're using some other DNS).

Maybe check that
$ dig yourdomain.whatever MX

gives the right result too.

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