out -of-zone records

[Barry Margolin]

In article <fm9den$11vu$1 at sf1.isc.org>, "Sam M" <sam.m at servwise.com> 
wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > > I'm trying to change the name servers of a newly registered domain to
> > my own
> > > for a .be domain via Enom. Unfortunatly something is going wrong and
> > I'm not
> > > sure what it is. Enom is telling me that my name servers
> > ns1.servwise.com
> > > (ns2, ns3 and ns4 etc)  are not in the out-of-zone records for the
> > .be
> > > domain. I've never heard of this although admittedly this is the
> > first .be
> > > domain I've tried to host however I have plenty of other
> > international
> > > domains .it, .eu, .uk using my DNS servers.
> > 
> > 	Why don't you ask Enom what the message means and how to
> > 	address it?  They, after all, should know what their own
> > 	messages mean and you are paying them for a service.
> > 
> > 	If they get asked often enough they will fix the message
> > 	or create a pointer to a more detailed description.
> 
> Believe me I have, they are not very helpful. There response is just
> 
> "Please contact the sponsoring registrar of xxxxxdomain.be and request that
> they add the out-of-zone records for the name servers to be used in the .BE
> zone."
> 
> I've had the same error with .it domains even though I host a bunch of them
> so know they work with my name servers.

What I suspect they're saying is that you have to register the 
nameservers and their IPs with your registrar, even though the 
nameservers are not in the same TLD as your domain.  This isn't 
necessary for the DNS hierarchy, since these are not glue records that 
must be included in the parent zone, but I think it's a common 
requirement for registries.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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