facing problem

[Vishwanath T. K.]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:50:23 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer
<bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:
> 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
> 

I agree there should be no connection with ping and DNS setup in this case.

Tell me one thing, can i force (somehow) and make a new nameserver as
the authoritative server.

Vishwanath