Help in diagnostics

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9osvq0$spo at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Odhiambo Washington  <wash at wananchi.com> wrote:
>The message below is from a domain registrar, declining the request to
>register a domain, southernlogistics.co.ke.
>The name servers submitted with the template are 
>
>ns2.wananchi.com
>ns1.iconnect.co.ke
>
>Could someone with a hawk-eye tell me where the exact point of failure lies?
>I seem to be missing that and the registrar wouldn't buldge ;-)

I suspect the third bullet below explains the problem.  You submitted two
nameservers in the registration, but when you query the servers for the NS
records they return *three* servers.  You need to include ns1.wananchi.com
in the registration, or take it out of the NS records.

>############################## BEGIN MESSG ########
>
>from the following diagnostics, it is demonstratable that the servers you
>have specified failed in one of the following ways
>  o one or more of them did not exist as named
>  o one or more of them is not serving the zone for which you are applying
>  o the list of servers you specified in the form did not match the list
>    of servers configured into one or more of the actual servers
>
>when you have corrected the problem, AND TESTED TO ENSURE THE ERRORS NO
>LONGER EXIST, then please submit a new application.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
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