Re: [cobalt-users] Need some help on nameservers

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vicky Chandna wrote:

> I have cobalt raq3 server and have created nameservers ns1.mydom.com and
> ns2.mydom.com on it.
> Of the above ns2.mydom.com is non-functional.

What do you mean by created?  Do you mean registered with a registry? 
Do you mean you set up a site on your RaQ3 for it?  Do you mean you run
two copies of bind?

Please be more specific.

> I have seen many sites wherein whois shows ns1 and ns2 having two
> consecutive ip's. That means they are setup on the same server.

Not necessarily.  Our <ns1.ns-one.net> and <ns3.ns-one.net> have
consecutive IP#s, they are NOT on the same system.  They are on the same
network, though, which is considered "not a good thing", so we also have
<ns2.ns-one.net> off network.

> Can someone point out whether i require forwarding of nameservers on the
> raq3 so that the ns2 also shows up as operational.

I'm not sure what you mean by "forwarding".  If both nameserver
addresses point to the same copy of bind, that's all you need.  If you
answer the questions I posed above, perhaps I can be more helpful.

> My domain registration service with OpenSRS will not accept the second
> nameserver ns2.

Now we're getting somewhere.  If your registrar hasn't accepted it, then
it's NOT set up.

Why won't they accept it?  There are only two valid reasons among
registrars in the .com, .net, .org and .edu domains for not accepting a
nameserver registration.  They are:

1) the nameserver is not running at the time they test it.

2) the nameserver is using the same IP# of another running nameserver.

Please let me know which of these reasons they gave you.

Then I can probably help you.

Jeff
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