At 5/10/01 10:55 PM -0400, you wrote:
While it was erudite, detailed and technical, because of my own limitations, it was no help whatsover, as I couldn't understand if it answered the relatively simple question.
So let's rephrase the question; it bothers me to fail at explaining/teaching something. :)
One of the failures of being an appliance operator is that you tend to look for the GUI solution.
First, to seek the GUI solution. Then, to understand the concepts so that the GUI solution is better managed and eventually, like training wheels, becomes unnecessary. Trust me, what little I know of DNS has all been learned in the past 90 days in what jokingly pretends to call itself my spare time... it's not that hard.
Short answer:* You should count on two nameservers (apparently, you run your DNS server as a master/primary and use your ISP's DNS server as a slave/secondary).
* You can (in general) safely use those two nameservers with every domain you ever register. Except with NSI and some other registrars, for reasons that may someday have been historically valid but which today I cannot fathom. (I may lack knowledge, or they may need to modernize... can't tell which.)
* If you switch registrars, the problem goes away. If you want to keep NSI, we have to be creative. One way is to find out under which name those two IP addresses are registered, and simply list them that way. Other ways may be.
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx