Authoratative confusion

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Anderson <m at a.my.domain> writes:

    Matt> Our domain, aisoftware.com.au, was being hosted by another
    Matt> company's web servers and their DNS boxes were authoratative
    Matt> for the domain.  We have now set up our own DNS servers and
    Matt> have had the other company remove their delegation.

    Matt> The problem - even tho they have removed all the zone files,
    Matt> and I have created zone files and made the necessary entries
    Matt> to the named.conf file, it seems as though the other
    Matt> company's servers are still authoratative for our domain.
    Matt> According to them my simple act of setting up the delegation
    Matt> etc, should have been enough to update the DNS but I think
    Matt> there must be a missing link in the chain here somewhere.

Correct, the DNS administrator for the com.au zone should arrange for
the NS records for aisoftware.com.au to point at your new name servers.

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