international domain registration issues/dns related

Jon Booth jon at lucidlogic.com
Wed Jan 23 23:17:31 UTC 2002



> Some of our registrations are being rejected by the various country registrars.
> Frequently we get very little information back from verisign, who they say get
> very little info back the country registrars. Sometimes we get an actual error,
> but more frequently we get something "you nameserver is not set up right". Not
> incredibly helpful. 

For Australia .com.au the tld authority is pretty strict. Before it
accepts the nameservers for the domain the following tests must be
passed.

1) There must be at least 2 name servers
2) Serial numbers from both nameservers must match
3) The name you enter for the nameserver (ie ns.telstra.net) must match
the IP address you enter for the nameserver (I don't know why the don't
just ask for the name and do a lookup)
4) The zone file on each nameserver must contain all the nameservers you
are submitting as authoritive for that domain and no more.
5) Both name servers must return authoritive results for the domain.

There a re peobably a few more. Pretty much your setup has to be A1
correct. They a very strict compared to .com registrars and have caused me
to hurl much profanity at my poor monitor as I got them exact. Hope that
gives you something to think about.

Jon

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