out -of-zone records

[Barry Margolin]

In article <fm9ggi$18lp$1 at sf1.isc.org>, "Sam M" <sam.m at servwise.com> 
wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> > Behalf Of Barry Margolin
> > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 4:58 AM
> > To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> > Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: out -of-zone records
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Okay I'm more than a little confused now.
> 
> My name servers are
> 
> ns1.servwise.com, ns2.servwise.com, ns3.servwise.com, ns4.servwise.com
> 
> The domain servwise.com is registered through www.namesdirect.com and using
> their service I have configured the name servers via their web gui (I'm not
> all the clued up on what this actually does but understood it basically
> registers my name servers with Internic or VeriSign (OR some other
> organisation) allowing my use the ns1-ns4 as name servers for hosting DNS
> records for domains.
> 
> Now I thought this would be all I need to do and I could host records for
> ANY TLD or ccTLD on my server. However I'm now coming to the conclusion that
> maybe I need to register my name servers with some other TLD authorities to
> allow me to host domains like the .BE one I'm trying to host. Am I correct?
> 
> Unfortunatly I have absolutely no idea how to go about doing this and
> mydomain only gives me the one form to register my name servers. 

I think you need to register the ns#.servwise.com with ENOM, since 
they're the registrar for your .BE domain.

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