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Re: [cobalt-users] How to make DNS listen on particular IP address?



> > I don't.  Do I have to before my DNS works?
>
> Before any domain name will resolve it needs to be registered with proper
> nameservers. You can create a sub-domain ns1.domain.com but it's just a
> sub-domain, not a nameserver until it's registered as a nameserver with
the
> registrar that the original domain name was registered with.

> use dig
> dig <somename> @my.nameserver.tld
> nslookup has many bugs, for one thing it likes
> to find a reverse record for everything.

> I assume that the ip address are your ISP
> you need to asked them to add some pointers for reverse lookups as you
> can't do that as that netblock is probably under there control

Guys, thanks a lot!  dig shows that everything works fine, and I am now
registering my ns1. and ns2. with NETSOL.  I guess in this case I do not
need to ask my ISP to add reverse lookup pointer -- everybody should be able
to get it from NETSOL.  Please let me know if I am wrong and it is better to
do both.

Thank you,
Denis

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