Secondary with Granitecanyon

[Mark Mentovai]

Bill Moseley wrote:
>I'm planning on running a primary master, and use Granitecanyon as a
>secondary.
>
>The curious thing is that Network Solutions wants me to specify two name
>servers for my domain.  Ok, one would expect before submitting a DNS change
>to Network Solutions (and on to the root servers) that the name servers
>should be up and running, right?

You might think so, and NSI documentation might lead you to believe so, 
and it even was true at some point in the past, but it's just not the 
case.

>Well, to create a secondary at Granitecanyon you tell them what your
>primary is, and then they do a zone transfer.  But since I don't have a
>secondary yet I can't update my record at Network Solutions, and that means
>Granitecanyon can't lookup my name server to do a zone transfer.
>
>I'm missing some thing here, as this seems like a chicken and egg problem.
>What step am I missing?

I am entirely unfamiliar with Granite Canyon, but if you have them pull 
zone transfers off your primary server by supplying your IP address to 
them, you should be able to get on your feet.  In general, I have my 
nameservers do zone transfers from IP addresses anyway, just in case 
someone mucks something on the primary server.

Mark