Authoritative Nameserver for Domain

[Barry Margolin]

In article <abrcv8$1duc$1 at isrv4.isc.org>,
Darryl Bach <southend at ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Hello All:
>I am trying to determine if we have been granted authority to answer DNS
>requests as the primary nameserver on our domain.  I have named running and
>have entered all the appropriate information in /etc/namedb, (zone files,
>named.conf etc).  What's the best way to determine if we are not only the
>primary nameserver for our domain, (vccaps.com) but have been granted
>authoritative rights on our static IP to answer DNS requests, (I'm probably
>wording this terribly, new to this).  I did a dig using Sam Spade but didn't
>have a clue at what I was looking at.

dig vccaps.com ns @a.gtld-servers.net

will list the nameservers that your domain has been delegated to:

vccaps.com.		2D IN NS	OPAL.NBNET.NB.CA.
vccaps.com.		2D IN NS	DNS1.vccaps.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
DNS1.vccaps.com.	2D IN A		142.176.162.195

So if your machine is dns1.vccaps.com (and its address is 142.176.162.195)
or opal.nbnet.nb.ca, then you have been granted authority for the domain.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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