BBLISA: Re: DNS registration problems

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Daniel Hagerty wrote:

>     Let's say you want to register foobar.com, with a name server of
> ns1.foobar.com (which we'll say is IP 10.1.1.1).  For this to happen,

In my case, it's more like I'm trying to register foo.com, with a
nameserver of ns.bar.com, where ns.bar.com already acts as the primary dns
for bar.com. I own and manage bar.com, and I added the zone for foo.com.
I test this with nslookup:

    > server ns.bar.com
    > www.foo.com
    Name:    www.foo.com
    Address: 10.1.1.1

and it all works fine.

Now I register the domain name at domainzoo.com, and their tech support
tells me "your dns server does not exist".

> ....
> Without an A record in the parent zone, there's no way for anybody on
> the net to *find* ns1.foobar.com to ask them about foobar.com .  It's
> a bootstrap problem.
> ....

ns.bar.com does indeed have a valid A record. I don't understand why
domainzoo has a problem with it.


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John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix 
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