At 03:46 PM 2/14/2002, you wrote:
Hi All - I've read multi-postings on this issue of Primary and secondary and I'm still confused. Here is my dilemma: I registered a nameserver. I want to run it as my "Primary," i.e., I would like to run dns on my server. I have a site registered with a FQDN on the IP I was issued and I am running a PTR record for the single IP number. My ISP is running secondary DNS. The domain resolves with Primary authority residing with me, and secondary nameserver services resolving to my ISP. This seems correct (though the primary upstream PTR record was not resolving to my hostname... it now is...) The issue is - if I add a sub-domain, i.e., another virtual site (with it's own domain name) under the same IP - do I need to inform my ISP of the change to my DNS records, or will the secondary automatically update itself to reflect the new sub-domain? If I have to inform them - then I have to inform them every time I add a sub-domain (and pay, and hassle accordingly?) In writing this I can imagine the reply I am going to receive: (:I have cut and pasted cross posts on this issue - which is correct? :)
I think your first problem is a common one today. Patience. You have none!If you truly are registered as a nameserver, your changes will propagate. How long that takes in where you need the patience. You can set the things like ttl in your nameserver and restart it. Yes, you need to restart it. I am not sure if a Raq automatically restarts the DNS server when you click on the save changes. Check the log. Once this is done, you have done all you can do until the rest of the internet catches up. Most places state plainly 24 - 72 hours. If after 72 hours you still can't resolve, you have a problem. YES, you have to wait. Let me state it again, you need patience and you have to wait on everyone else.
I set something up a couple of days ago. I set the site up on my Raq. I made a change to my hosts file on my windoze machine and I could resolve to it and see the page I put there. I made a change at network solutions to point at the dns server I am using. That change took place sometime during the night (very late). I do not know when the dns server was restarted, but it did not take place until between 10 and 11 pm last night and everything started resolving. About 36 hours after I could see the site on my Raq.