(probably stupid) question about testing

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:27:22PM -0500,
 Michael W.Cocke <cocke at catherders.com> wrote 
 a message of 19 lines which said:

> I've been using dyndns.org as my nameserver not because I have a
> dynamic IP but because my ISP doesn't provide DNS services.  Now, I
> THINK I've got my internal nameserver set up properly...  but before
> I go change my A record at Network Solutions to make my NS, er, my
> NS, is there a definitive method to make SURE I've got this set up
> properly?

Run zonecheck on it?

http://www.zonecheck.fr/

~/tmp %  zonecheck catherders.com
ZONE  : catherders.com.
NS <= : ns1.mydyndns.org. [63.208.196.92]
NS    : ns2.mydyndns.org. [209.69.32.138]
NS    : ns3.mydyndns.org. [63.209.15.211]
NS    : ns4.mydyndns.org. [212.100.224.176]
NS    : ns5.mydyndns.org. [63.208.196.93]

       _______________
     ,---------------.|
~~~~ |    warning    || ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     `---------------'
w> Reverse for the nameserver IP address doesn't match
=> ns4.mydyndns.org./212.100.224.176

==> SUCCESS (but 1 warning(s))