MX record

[sarfraz]

Hi I am trying to change MX record for my mail server which is now hosted on MS exchange. Discountasp.net's DNS manager screen provides the facility to change the MX record. I adding MX record it gives you option to enter following fields Domain Name, Destination (place where my exchange server is hosted), distance and TTL. I have all the information except domain name which i left blank and it got defaulted to my domain name. It has been close to 18 hours and still i am getting the following message when i send the email from outside

Relay access denied
Remote-MTA: 198.77.13.239

Any idea why?

[sarfraz]

I am doing some digging around this problem and i got this health check on my domain for mx record here are the results and they seem to have a problem with ns2.discountasp.net i hope discountasp staff is reading this and help me out here:

DNS Traversal for saroz.info.
Email link to resultsGenerated by www.DNSstuff.com at 15:27:35 GMT on 12 Mar 2009.



Getting NS record list at d.root-servers.net... Done!
Looking up at the 6 info. parent servers:

Server Response Time
c0.info.afilias-nst.info [199.254.49.1] ns1.discountasp.net. ns2.discountasp.net. 50ms
a2.info.afilias-nst.info [199.249.113.1] ns1.discountasp.net. ns2.discountasp.net. 47ms
a0.info.afilias-nst.info [199.254.31.1] ns1.discountasp.net. ns2.discountasp.net. 45ms
b0.info.afilias-nst.org [199.254.48.1] ns1.discountasp.net. ns2.discountasp.net. 77ms
b2.info.afilias-nst.org [199.249.121.1] ns1.discountasp.net. ns2.discountasp.net. 45ms
d0.info.afilias-nst.org [199.254.50.1] ns1.discountasp.net. ns2.discountasp.net. 77ms

Status: Records all match.

Looking up at the 2 saroz.info. parent servers:

Server Response Time
ns1.discountasp.net [209.200.166.3] 10-mx1.hostmailserver.com. 20-mx2.hostmailserver.com. 230ms
ns2.discountasp.net [216.177.89.10] Timeout

Status: Records DO NOT all match: Results from ns2.discountasp.net (0 answers) do not match results from ns1.discountasp.net (2 answers).

[Joseph Jun]

If you're encountering a relaying error from the server at 198.77.13.239, the most common reason for the error is due to SMTP authentication.

You may want to double check the credentials being submitted just to make sure that everything's correct.

[bruce]

relay denied has nothing to do w/ the MX record. Is 198.77.13.239 the correct IP of your server?