Plan A:
Try using ns2.mydomain.com as your other name server, instead of ns1.my-isp.net. Give it the same IP address as ns1.mydomain.com.
If your ISP's web interface insists that you use a different address for each name server, then use plan B below.
Plan B:
In case you doubt that this will work, as a test, get a domain name at dyndns.com and set its address to the address of your one and only name server.
Then at your registrar (and of course in your own zone) use this name in place of your ns1.my-isp.net as your other name server name. You should not have to enter an address for it because it is outside the domain it serves. See the discussion in:
http://gnudip2.sourceforge.net/gnudip-www/latest/gnudip/html/owndomain.html)
If your registrar does insist on an address, enter anything. It won't get used by the root DNS servers.
When you see that this works, you can get a second domain name (it can be anything since noone but you will use it - e.g. aeiou.net) and set up a reciprocal name server thing between them.
Creighton MacDonnell
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List: gnudip2-general Subject: Re: [GnuDIP] PING problem with GNUDip updated hostnames From: gnudip2-general-admin () lists ! sourceforge ! net Date: 2003-12-19 15:49:27 [Download message RAW]
So your ISP is providing secondary DNS?
How are you supposed to do updates to the copy of the zone they maintain? Do you have to do it by hand? If so you need to make some other arrangement for secondary DNS with someone who will support dynamic DNS for you. Once you do this, you will also have to agree on which methods to use to maintain their copy. BIND supports a number (all?) of the methods prescribed in the DMS standards for this. But what do they support?
You may be able to make a reciprocal agreement with some other GnuDIP user on this list? Any offers? Not me. Sorry.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you for your links. > > Checking my domain at www.DNSstuff.com, and when i do hostname lookup > tests, I discovered that when the DNS search goes to the primary > Nameserver (my GNUDip server), it finds my hostname properly. But, if > by chance it goes to my secondary Nameserver, which is from my ISP, it > will NEVER find my hostname's A record. > > How can I rectify this issue?
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