Nameserver question...

[Kevin Darcy]

No, you can't use an alias in an NS record (as others have pointed out).

Also, last time I checked, the gTLD registry won't allow you to point two
different nameserver names at the same IP address, so you can't just create
a ns3.mydomain.com A record and point it at the same address as the
ns1.otherdomain.com name, unless mydomain.com is the *only* gTLD subdomain
that is hosted on that box (which seems unlikely).

If the otherdomain.com folks have some free address space, why don't you
just have them configure a virtual interface on their nameserver? Then you
could point ns3.mydomain.com at that address without any conflict.


- Kevin

meliorasf wrote:

> I am using someone else's NS server (ns1.otherdomain.com) for my
> secondary/slave DNS, but I would like my domain name registrar's records
> to list NS servers with my domain name suffix only, even if they resolve
> elsewhere.
>
> So instead of having my NS servers listed with my registrar as...
>
> ns1.mydomain.com
> ns2.mydomain.com
> ns1.otherdomain.com
>
> ...I would like to have them listed as...
>
> ns1.mydomain.com
> ns2.mydomain.com
> ns3.mydomain.com
>
> ...where ns3.mydomain.com is just a CNAME set up in my DNS that points
> to ns1.otherdomain.com (assuming permission granted to do so by
> otherdomain.com admin).
>
> My feeling is that this is not the right way to set it up, but I was
> unable to find any FAQs or other info specifically about it.
>
> Any help appreciated...