Authoratative confusion

[D. Stussy]

On 20 Sep 1999, Matt Anderson wrote:
> I'll explain my situation before I present the problem.
> 
> Our domain, aisoftware.com.au, was being hosted by another company's web
> servers and their DNS boxes were authoratative for the domain.  We have now
> set up our own DNS servers and have had the other company remove their
> delegation.
> 
> The problem - even tho they have removed all the zone files, and I have
> created zone files and made the necessary entries to the named.conf file, it
> seems as though the other company's servers are still authoratative for our
> domain.  According to them my simple act of setting up the delegation etc,
> should have been enough to update the DNS but I think there must be a
> missing link in the chain here somewhere.
> 
> To take delegation of a domain, what more do I need to do besides set up
> BIND?  Can I have the box that I want to become the domain referencing
> itself in DNS?  ie.  domain aisoftware.com.au is delegated by
> supremedalek.aisoftware.com.au in 210.9.89.219
> 
> If required I can post my named.conf and zone files.  Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.

1)  Change NS-RR data to indicate that your servers are the servers.
	(I think you did this as part of your change)
2)  Notify the upstream domain handler about the change in servers.
	(did you do this?)
3)  Old domain servers should cancel/remove your domain or become secondary.
	(did they do this?)