[Wylug-discuss] OT: DNS WHOIS Nameserver entries

[James Holden (WYLUG)]

All,

I run several domains off a couple of boxes, which are also primary and
secondary NS's for all but two domains. The other two have their DNS
outsourced to ZoneEdit. So (for example):

ns1.zoneedit.com and ns2.zoneedit.com are authoritative for mydomain1.com.

ns1.mydomain1.com and ns2.mydomain1.com are authoritative for
mydomain2.com, mydomain3.com mydomain4.com etc...

Can somebody explain how it is possible to have ns1.mydomain1.com and
ns2.mydomain1.com authoritative for mydomain1.com? Surely
ns1.mydomain1.com or ns2.mydomain1.com would need to be reached in order
to resolve their own IP addresses to answer any queries. It isn't valid
to specify raw IP addresses as nameservers in the domain records, AFAIK.

James