GraniteCanyon public DNS newsgroup access

[David Cost]

I remember struggling with this question of unpublished NS, and this has
helped clarify it for me.

"Fred Viles" <fv4 at do.whois.fv4.at.internic> wrote in message
news:8EE8D9582xyzzy at news2.brainstorm.net...
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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I'm desperately trying to use my own "Unpublished" name server,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
>
>
>