Recently Registered Primary DNS will not resolve by name

[Michael Kjorling]

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On Apr 15 2002 12:08 -0400, Brian Guild wrote:

> Guys,
>
> Bear with me here because I am very new at bringing up DNS boxes.  Anyway, I
> registered my primary DNS, dns1.body1.com with my registrar Netsol.  When I
> do a whois on the name server through Netsol, I get the appropriate
> corresponding IP and name.
>
> Yet, when I try to resolve this server by name from, say, for example,
> another DNS server, I have no luck.  Yes, I can ping it by IP number, but I
> cannot communicate by name.  I have seen most other DNS servers set up so
> you can reach them by name.  Do I have anything to worry about?  Have I not
> configured or registered this machine correctly?

You need to add dns1.body1.com to the body1.com zone as well, since
authorative data has higher credibility than glue records.


Michael Kjörling

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