newbie: Invalid Name Server

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Tue Sep 25 20:46:35 UTC 2001


In article <9oqpe3$ffd at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
john-paul delaney  <jp at justatest.com> wrote:
>
>On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Barry Margolin wrote:
>
>Thanks Barry for picking up on this one... it looks like I've missed
>something glaringly obvious - but I'm still ignorant of exactly what.
>
>I'm not sure what you mean by registered - my nameserver machine hostname
>is registered with NIC.NET.  The new website domain is also registered
>with NIC.NET - I just want to insert my own nameserver in the dns entry
>for the new domain... but I'm told it's an invalid nameserver.
>
>It looks like I have to perform some special 'nameserver' registration to
>make my nameserver a publicly visible one?

If you would tell us the domains and hostnames involved, we might have a
chance of figuring out what's going on.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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