GraniteCanyon public DNS newsgroup access

[Fred Viles]

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perryb1354 at my-deja.com wrote in <897t1j$4v$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>:

>I've been chompn' at the bit waiting for the news server to come
>back as well.
>
>I'm desperately trying to use my own "Unpublished" name server,
>but can't seem to grasp the concept.

The concept is that you run your own name server as master for the 
zone, but you don't "publish" this in the InterNIC delegation.  All 
of your listed servers (e.g. NS1 and NS2 at GC) are configured as 
slave (Secondary).

>   What I *think* is right, by
>reading the info on public DNS web, is not working.  Can someone
>give me a better description of how this works?  Here is what I've
>done, that does *not* work.
>
>Created registered my domainA with NIC and pointed both primary
>and secondaries to granitecanyon's ns'.

Right.

>Next, created "Primary DNS" with granitecanyon for the same
>domainA with an A record pointing to my name server
>ns.domainA.org. 

Wrong.  You will have to delete this zone and start over once the 
deletion takes effect.  This time use the "Create Secondary DNS" 
link.  After entering your domain name, email address and password, 
you will get a page where you enter the address of your server.

If your server is not known by any existing names (ie in a zone that 
is already being served somewhere), you'll have to enter the IP 
address.

>Now on ns.domainA.org, I configured to allow zone xfers from
>granitecanyon's ns1 and ns2.  This has been running for about 48
>hours and using a sniffer and logs, I can't see that
>granitecanyon's ns1 or ns2 are requesting xfers from my name
>server - ns.domainA.org. 

That's because you didn't set up GC to be secondary for domainA.org.

>Then I registered a domainB with the NIC, pointed to
>granitecanyon's ns1 and ns2.  Went to ganitecanyon and created
>"Secondary DNS" for this domanB and pointed it to my previosly
>created ns.domainA.org.

This should have worked if you *successfully* set up GC as primary 
for domainA.org as described above.  Did you set up your server to be 
authoritative for domainB?

>   This isn't working and I don't have any
>control over my domains.  The only thing that does work is the
>initial domainA that I created using the "Primary DNS" of granite
>canyon, but I still have to make zone changes, add A records etc.,
>via granitecanyon's web. 

If GC is serving domainA, and your server is serving domainB, I don't 
see why your attempt to set up GC as secondary for domainB would 
fail.  Giving us some real information (like the real domain names, 
and the address of your server) would make it easier to help you.

>...

- Fred