[SWLUG] How do I check operation of DNS system.

[Peter Prior]

You will have to register your machine as a nameserver - Ie: make a dns 
record for it sticky.

You can normally do this via your registra.

When successful, you will be able to do whois yourbox.yourdomain.com

Pete

Neil Jones wrote:
> I have finally taken the plunge and I am renting a server for my websites.
> I am in the process of transfering them over but I am having some problems 
> with set up.
> 
> I have set up named.conf and a zone file for one of the domains and named is 
> running.
> 
> I have my secondary DNS else where.
> 
> However when I try to enter the primary DNS with my Domain registrar 
> Godady.com I get "Unavailable error in field Host name".
> 
> Now researching this with google finds someone who has emailed Godaddy about 
> this problem and 
> 
> Got the following answer
>  "GoDaddy.com limits the transfer of domain names handled by us to 
> unrecognized domain name servers in order to protect our customers interests. 
> Please contact your server administrator in order to have these name servers 
> registered with Verisign and to update the status on these DNS servers."
> 
> I am going to contact Godaddy myself because I find this baffling and there is 
> nothing on Verisign's website. (  have googled it) that makes anysense in 
> relation to this.
> Given that I am using my own brand new nameserver for primary DNS
> I seem to be in a catch 22.
> 
> However before I contact Godaddy. I want first of all to know if there is 
> anyway to validate the DNS settings to ensure that they are correct.
> I don't want them telling me "oh the problem is on the nameserver".
> I have managed a server with hundreds of domains on it and I designed a 
> bespoke DNS configuration system for it and I have based the setting on this 
> so I am fairly confident, but I am a little uncertain of how you check the 
> settings are actually working. Everything seems fine but I just don't trust 
> Bind
> 
> Secondly does this busines of registering nameservers make sense to anyone.
> When ever I google I get information on how to change the nameservers on a 
> domain I know how to do that it is a trivial exercise It is just that Godaddy 
> doesn't seem to recognise the name of the new nameserver.
>  
> --
> Neil Jones- Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk 
> 
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