On Friday 22 October 2004 19:34, Phil Sumner wrote:
Can someone please explain to me where I am going wrong here?
I've registered a domain with eu.org (pmsumner.eu.org), for which I am running a DNS on a home PC, and have zoneedit providing the secondary DNS.
I can't seem to persuade my home PC to act as an authoritative server, presumably related to this response from nslookup:
Is your home PC assigned a fixed IP? It really needs to be if it's going to be a name server. You should follow Ken's advice and check your domain name registration account to see what name servers were specified.
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server pmsumner.force9.co.uk
Default Server: pmsumner.force9.co.uk Address: 80.229.18.238
set type=ns pmsumner.eu.org
Server: pmsumner.force9.co.uk Address: 80.229.18.238
Non-authoritative answer: pmsumner.eu.org nameserver = 80.229.18.238.pmsumner.eu.org ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is clearly foobarred. "dig ns pmsumner.eu.org" confirms it. I'm pretty sure this has to be fixed upstream of your server. Maybe one of the dns gurus can verify this. I looked at your zone file and didn't see any obvious problems although my preference is to use CNAMES for aliases instead of A records (others prefer your way so there's no reason to change it). Jeff