Re: [cobalt-users] Name server registration

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Huston, Virgil H." wrote:

> Thanks for the response. As you can figure out, I am a Raq newbie. The
> instructions from my hosting company for setting up the DNS made it seem
> like the Raq was doing some behind the scenes things regarding the name
> servers. The instructions said to set it up using only one of the IP
> addresses and the primary and secondary name servers would be created.

Close.  The RaQ (and in fact any other nameserver) can be used as both
primary and secondary, as long as you've got two IP#s pointing to the
box, and one nameserver registration (with the same registrar that
registered the domain name you're using for the nameservers) for each of
the IP#s.

> So,
> when I registered them, I used only one IP address.

If you used only one IP# to register both nameserver, then the
registrations did NOT go through.

Did you register these with Network Solutions?  If so, perhaps it's time
to call them.  If you used Network Solutions to register your
nameservers, and you didn't have to log in with a password first, then
all you did was create templates that you have to mail in later.  In
which case you'd get errors when you mailed in the second nameserver to
use the same IP.  If you mailed them both in at the same time they'd
both be accepted, but one of them wouldn't "work"; probably the second.

If you had to use the password login, then the registration of the
second server for the same IP# should have been rejected when you tried
to finish the registration.

If you used any other registrar, and they accepted to nameserver
registrations at the same IP#, they shouldn't have, and when they try to
add them to the shared registry database, the update will fail, and they
may or may not have something in place to tell you.

> I am really confused and
> have had a server now for almost a week that I cannot use because I can't
> seem to get the name servers either created or registered or both. I have
> searched for my name servers, but they don't show up. I am trying to figure
> out how to get them registered. I have an email into tech support, but they
> tend to take their time.

What do you mean by "show up"?  Do you mean in whois?  They show up at
Network Solutions if you type in "host na.meservername.com" or whatever,
into whois.  I don't know of any other registrar's method. They don't
show up using nslookup unless you've added them to DNS.

Fixing this kind of stuff is what nobaloney.net does; we specialize in
two areas: RaQs, and DNS.

Jeff
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