Domain not yet mapped??

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7l86ti$s2o$1 at news.quebectel.com>,
NK <treehug3 at REMOVE.THIShotmail.com> wrote:
>    I'm having a problem and was hoping you could help me. I have a box
>(209.35.120.1) and a domain (nowwire.com). What I want to do is - setup DNS
>so that I can name my box nowwire.com and make nowwire.com a nameserver. But
>my problem is this: If I want my box to be called nowwire.com, the
>nowwire.com nameserver at InterNIC has to be nowwire.com. However, if I
>don't have the domain nowwire.com pointed to my NS (because it's not setup
>yet because I want the name nowwire.com), I can't give the nameserver the
>name nowwire.com. Catch 22? That's what it seems like to me! A solution
>seems to me is to not name the nameserver temporarily (just keep it at
>209.35.120.1, no mapped hostname) and register it under InterNIC, but can
>that be done? As far as I know you need a hostname for your NS too to
>register it.

When you register the domain, put this hostname and address in the
Nameserver section of the form.  InterNIC will register the hostname and
the domain at the same time.

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