Contacting a Parent NameServer.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <blva0j$2g81$1 at sf1.isc.org>, ericcvt <ericcvt at hotmail.com> wrote:
>I'm using RH 8.I believe I have set up DNS correctly. When I type host
>xxxx it shows info about the xxxx machine. In addition, when I update
>the zone files on my primary zone, the updates travel to my secondary
>server. I can use dig and nslookup to get info on my DNS and outside
>domains, but when I try to have an outside domain detect my domain I
>get "connection timed out;; no servers could be reached." I read in
>DNS & Bind 4th edition that I have to register my zone files with the
>parent name server. Several weeks ago I brought a domain from
>www.networksolutions.com. When I  emailed networksolutions, I got no
>meaningful help. I do know that networksolutions has provided me with
>two nameservers. ns13.worlnic.com & ns14.worldnic.com.

Those are the nameservers they use when you "park" your domain with them
instead of providing your own nameservers.

You need to register hostnames for your DNS servers, and then update the
domain registration to list your nameservers instead of the worldnic.com
servers.

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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin at level3.com
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