Question : UBUNTU 8.04 HOW do you set up bind A and MX record, zone?

What files must be in place?
What is in the files?
Please display an example.

I am setting up zimbra 5.0.19 on ubuntu 8.04 for the second time and apparently I've gotten dumber in the past year as I am failing miserably.  You are supossed to set it up so that the server resolves to itself for the mx and a record.  It is not working and keeps throwing an error in the install saying that is doesnt.

Answer : UBUNTU 8.04 HOW do you set up bind A and MX record, zone?

The default ZCS setup attempts to search for a dns record on your hostname domain.
The default is doing like dig mx server.domain.com for recieving mail's as [email protected]

You can skip that message and add as many domains as you want to later, or change it to domain.com
Thus it'll do like dig mx domain.com for recieving mail's as [email protected].


The output of the following would help us:
cat /etc/hosts
cat /etc/resolv.conf
dig domain.com mx
dig domain.com any
host `hostname`   <- note backticks and not single quotes


I can't tell but if your stuck on the step about installing BIND (the dns server) you can also follow these guides for info on how to create the zone etc:
http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Ubuntu_8.04_LTS_Server_%28Hardy_Heron%29_Install_Guide
http://www.howtoforge.com/installing_zimbra_collaboration_suite_on_ubuntu
http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Ubuntu_6.06_Server_%28Dapper_Drake%29_Beginner%27s_Install_Guide