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Ecloud Selfhosting (Beta)
I got a VPS and a domain. However after the installation it says:

[mydomain] not resolving to ip

Could someone post a video step by step instruction. Some of the VPS do not support more than 1 line of reverse DNS, and its almost impossible to add any additional reverse dns records.
A step by step would be extremely helpful.

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A video, really? :flushed:

This is a 2-steps configuration (replace yourdomain.tld with your real domain name):

  • on your VPS provider, IP V4 address is to be set to mail.yourdomain.tld
  • on your DNS domain provider, add:
    – type A record yourdomain.tld (often this is a @ A record) to your VPS IP V4 address
    – type A record mail.yourdomain.tld to your VPS IP V4 address
    – type MX record to mail.yourdomain.tld (priority 10, may display as @ MX)
    – type CNAME records autoconfig.yourdomain.tld, autodiscover.yourdomain.tld, spam.yourdomain.tld, welcome.yourdomain.tld, to mail.yourdomain.tld

Wait 1hour or 2 for propagation to do it’s magic (you can check from your VPS shell with dig or nslookup commands, against mail.yourdomain.tld).
That’s all !

If I understand your post, you’ve done the VPS part (reverse record), now you have to go to your DNS provider management interface and add all the forward records.

As an example:

@ 1800 IN A 1.2.3.4
mail 1800 IN A 1.2.3.4
@ 86400 IN MX 10 mail.smu44.eu.
autoconfig 86400 IN CNAME mail.smu44.eu.
autodiscover 86400 IN CNAME mail.smu44.eu.
spam 86400 IN CNAME mail.smu44.eu.
welcome 86400 IN CNAME mail.smu44.eu.
@ 86400 IN TXT v=spf1 mx:smu44.eu a:mail.smu44.eu -all
mail._domainkey 1800 IN TXT v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=some_very_long_key
_dmarc 86400 IN TXT v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:postmaster@smu44.eu; ruf=mailto:admin@smu44.eu; fo=0; adkim=s; aspf=s; pct=100; rf=afrf; sp=reject
_smtp._tls 86400 IN TXT v=TLSRPTv1; rua=mailto:postmaster@smu44.eu

Note: this setup is not specific to ecloud selfhosting, you may find plenty of tutorials around…

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I did set the reverse dns settings on VPS to point VPS IP to the domain, and used this https://www.whatismyip.com/reverse-dns-lookup/ to confirm that DNS reverse is set up. Yet, still when you go to the webpage nothing happens

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when setting up: it asks about

mail domain

alternative mail domain

Where does the prefix mail.privclood.com gets added to? first or second?

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Everything looks fine from here.
Maybe you didn’t wait enough? :wink:

Let’s try to reproduce the script.

dig NS privclood.com +short | head -n 1
ns23.domaincontrol.com.

=> OK, we got at least one authoritative DNS server for your domain :slight_smile:

dig @ns23.domaincontrol.com. mail.privclood.com +short
x.x.x.x

=> OK, the authoritative DNS got an IP address for mail.privclood.com :slight_smile:

nslookup x.x.x.x | grep "name = mail.privclood.com"
x.x.x.x.in-addr.arpa      name = mail.privclood.com.

=> OK, we got a PTR reverse record :slight_smile:

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As you have only one domain, please leave alternative empty.