facing problem

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:25:39AM +0530,
 Vishwanath T. K. <vishytk at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 36 lines which said:

> When ever i try to change the nameserver settings for the mentioned
> domain to point to my server (dns.tech-solindia.com) it just fails.
> The reason given to me by the domain server provider is that since we
> are unable to ping to dns.tech-solindia.com the operation if failing.

I can ping dns.tech-solindia.com from here in France.

But I see no connection with the DNS. Why would a failure to ping
(quite common, with the firewalls) prevent to use the machine as a
nameserver? Your registrar really requires the ability to ping the
nameserver? This is very strange.

dns.tech-solindia.com seems OK:

% dig @dns.tech-solindia.com SOA tech-solindia.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @dns.tech-solindia.com SOA tech-solindia.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 64692
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;tech-solindia.com.             IN      SOA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
tech-solindia.com.      86400   IN      SOA     ns1.penguindia.co.in.tech-solindia.com. root.penguindia.co.in. 2005030201 21600 3600 604800 86400

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
tech-solindia.com.      86400   IN      NS      ns2.penguindia.co.in.
tech-solindia.com.      86400   IN      NS      dns1.thruport.co.in.
tech-solindia.com.      86400   IN      NS      ns1.penguindia.co.in.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.penguindia.co.in.   86400   IN      A       64.237.99.169
ns2.penguindia.co.in.   86400   IN      A       61.95.207.118

;; Query time: 98 msec
;; SERVER: 64.237.99.169#53(dns.tech-solindia.com)
;; WHEN: Wed Mar  2 09:48:18 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 209