nslookup error? & IP specifying?

[Kevin Darcy]

Okay, 64.180.126.235 can resolve "ns.oddjobsbc.com" but the
*existing* nameservers for oddjobsbc.com (ns3.zoneedit.com and
ns4.zoneedit.com) have no knowledge of the name. Can you add that name to
the zone on zoneedit.com's nameservers? If not, then you're in the
chicken-and-egg situation I mentioned in my previous post. How can you
break this cycle? Do you control any other DNS domain? If so, I'd add
some names to that other domain, change the oddjobsbc.co nameservers to
those names, and once that change has propagated, you can add
ns.oddjobsbc.com and [whatever you want to call your second nameserver
for the zone] to oddjobsbc.com, and then change nameservers again with
your registrar.

Yes, you really *do* need at least 2 nameservers for your zone. The last
thing my Internet nameservers -- and everyone else's Internet nameservers
-- need is to be doing is wasting resources trying to resolve names in a
domain that has a Single Point of Failure that happened to fail. The
Internet is not just a network; it's a community, and one of the
community rules is "at least 2 nameservers". Ignore or disobey that rule
at your own peril.

BTW, there are plenty of outfits who will provide "secondary" service
(they should really call it "slave" service, but I guess then they might
be confused with something sexual). I understand that some of them are
free, too.


- Kevin


jasonlam_ at hotmail.com wrote:

> When I use nslookup mydomain.com, I get
>    Server ns.mydomain.com
>    Address 111.222.333.444
>
>    .... error
>
>   ( I can't remember the exact message, but something
>      about can't find mydomain.com:  Non-existent domain
>      for hostname.mydomain.com
>
> When use dig www.mydomain.com, mail.mydomain.com,
> hostname.mydomain.com
> or nslookup www.mydomain.com, mail.mydomain.com, hostname.mydomain.com
> its seems fine
>
> I've used named-checkzone & named-checkconf, everything is okay.
> I've used the dig & DNS check tools at www.ip-plus.net, everything
> is okay except they say I need 2nd nameserver.
>
> If someone has time, can that someone check over my stuff at
> www.ip-plus.net
> or with some other tool they know of...
>
> my ip is 64.180.126.235
> and domain name is oddjobsbc.com
>
> I'm assuming there must be something WRONG because why isn't
> my nameserver proprogated yet?... its been more then a week
>
> ====================
>
> I was told this: ( registrars.com is my registrar )
>
> "registrars.com seem to have no capability to do things like this:
> Name server: ns.oddjobsbc.com 64.180.126.235
> i.e. it has no capability to allow specifying IP along with symbolic
> name of DNS server. "
>
> Is this neccessary, I thought the idea of proprogating you nameserver
> throughout the world was good enough?
>
> A big thank you in advance, for any help given!!!