Chicken vs. egg

[eton at eronb.com]

just register you ns server with networksolutions

On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Mark Hartley wrote:

> I just recently set up my own domain servers for a domain I own.  I had
> formerly been using register.com as my dns server simply because they
> did it for free.  Now that I'm moving to my own dns servers, I have a
> problem.
> 
> I've named my dns servers ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com,  (I'm using
> 
> domain.com as an example here)  but of course now nobody knows about
> those names because they are defined within the DNS setup on those
> machines.  My question is:  how do I initially set up my dns servers
> with a domain name if the domain names are in turn defined by those same
> 
> DNS servers.  It appears to me to be one of those chicken vs. egg catch
> 22 scenarios.  I know this can be done.  Can someone please explain to
> me how to do this.  Maybe it is just an issue with using register.com to
> 
> set this up.  They do not allow me to specify the DNS servers using the
> IP.  I have to use a real domain name to specify which 2 servers will
> handle the domain.
> 
> 
> Can someone point my thick skull in the right direction?
> 
> Please respond here as my email info is bogus so I don't get spammed.
> 
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> Mark.
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