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I am using a linode running nginx. I wanted to have mail sending capabilities on my VPS, so I change the hostnames and reverse DNS but now I have messed up my DNS somehow and the site doesn't even resolve.

Here is what my DNS manager for the domain looks like enter image description here

Here is what my Reverse DNS setting looks like (I changed it to mail.bankpo.in) enter image description here

Content of /etc/hostname is mail.bankpo.in

Content of /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost
178.79.162.174 mail.bankpo.in

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

Command hostname -f gives hostname: Name or service not known

I have also rebooted it, but it seems like I have done something wrong. Any advice please?

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The site does not resolve because you've deleted @ entry (@ means no subdomain). According to your screenshot www.youdomain.com should resolve normally to 178.79.162.174, but yourdomain.com (without www) would not resolve.

Add A-type entry like @ IN 178.79.162.174 to fix this issue.

Your reverse dns entry looks fine. Please note, that your mail server should identify himself as mail.yourdomain.com, not yourdomain.com.

Also, you migth want to add spf TXT record to help spam filters (and avoid your mails being marked as spam). See here: http://old.openspf.org/dns.html

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  • Consider me a noob please. while adding A-type record, what should be my hostname? img6.imagebanana.com/img/lh24t8hh/Selection_037.png
    – Ashfame
    Apr 20, 2011 at 6:54
  • Also the question does have a screenshot for adding the reverse DNS entry. I can just enter the hostname and it will set that as a reverse dns entry.
    – Ashfame
    Apr 20, 2011 at 7:00
  • Access denied for this image. Hostname should be '@' or 'bankpo.in.' (with '.' at the and - this is important).
    – rvs
    Apr 20, 2011 at 7:13
  • May be your firewall or something, I can see that fine. I have added 'bankpo.in.' as the hostname and now I believe DNS will take full day to propagate, right? This alone should fix my problem, right? Once the site is up, I can get onto other things you mentioned.
    – Ashfame
    Apr 20, 2011 at 7:18
  • Yes, this should fix it.
    – rvs
    Apr 20, 2011 at 8:31
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While @rvs answer is more applicable in general case, linode users have to enter a blank hostname to fix the problem I was having of a missing A record-type. If you are not on linode, I would suggest rvs's answer will be more appropriate for you, so I am marking my answer as accepted and upvoting his answer.

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