Master DNS in SOA not found?

[DesignGuy]

"Barry Margolin" <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:cc4bed$5um$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> In article <cc48dn$30hn$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>  "DesignGuy" <dontbother at nowhere.com> wrote:
>
> > This is probably a newbie question but it is giving me fits. I'm trying
to
> > get the DNS setup on my server (RHEL, Plesk Control Panel). I keep
getting
> > arrors on DNSReport.com and CheckDNS.net
> >
> > "WARNING: Your SOA (Start of Authority) record states that your master
> > (primary) name server is: domain.com.. However, that server is not
listed at
> > the parent servers as one of your NS records! This is probably legal,
but
> > you should be sure that you know what you are doing.
> >
> > "Master DNS defined by SOA (domain.com) was not found among NS records."
> >
> >
> > The file domain.com in the directory /var/named/run-root/var contains
the
> > following:
> >
> > *** start file ***
> >
> > $TTL 86400
> >
> > @ IN SOA domain.com. webmaster.anotherdomain.com. (
> >    1088728934 ; Serial
> >    10800 ; Refresh
> >    3600 ; Retry
> >    604800 ; Expire
> >    86400 ) ; Minimum
> >
> > ns.domain.com.   IN NS  ns1.theplanet.com.
> > domain.com.   IN A  67.99.99.99
> > webmail.domain.com.  IN A  67.99.99.99
> > mail.domain.com.  IN A  67.99.99.99
> > ftp.domain.com.   IN CNAME  domain.com.
> > www.domain.com.   IN CNAME  domain.com.
> > domain.com.   IN MX 10 mail.domain.com.
> >
> > *** end file ***
> >
> > The primary and secondary nameservers are ns1.theplanet.com and
> > ns1.theplanet.com.
>
> Am I blind, or are those the *same*?  One machine can't be both master
> and slave (actually, it *is* possible by running multiple named
> processes that listen on different IP's, but you'd still need to assign
> different names to the IP's).


Yes, my mistake. It is actually ns1.theplanet.com and ns2.theplanet.com.
Sorry.


> >
> > Can anyone tell me if the above is correct, and if not what changes
should
> > be made? Making changes to the file seems to have no effect as far as
the
> > domain check reports go. Is their a time lag or do changes take effect
> > immediately?
>
> The complaint is about "domain.com" in your SOA record.  That field is
> supposed to contain the name of the primary master nameserver for the
> domain.
>
> If the primary and secondary nameservers are being run by theplanet.com,
> why are you creating a zone file of your own anyway?  You should just be
> accessing the zone from their nameservers.

Being new to this, I have no idea how to access the zone from their
nameservers. Can I change to rectify the error, or am I stuck with what they
(ThePlanet) provide?

Thanks for your help