setting up NS record

[paragasu]

anotherdomain.com currently hosted on free dns server - everydns.net

do i need to setup maradns as a recrusive dns in order to avoid
maradns to construct
ns record by itself (synth-ip) ?

On 11/4/08, Remco Rijnders <remco at webconquest.com> wrote:
>
> Op 5 nov 2008, om 04:40 heeft paragasu het volgende geschreven:
>
>> let say i have domain example.com and i did setup
>> ns1.anotherdomain.com and ns2.anotherdomain.com as my name server.
>>
>> on the domain root server. i add ns1.anotherdomain.com and
>> ns2.anotherdomain.com,
>>
>> on mara configuration i add
>>
>> example.com.  67.167.27.34
>> example.com.  ns1.anotherdomain.com
>> example.com.  ns2.anotherdomain.com
>> ns1.anotherdomain.com    67.75.144.103
>> ns2.anotherdomain.com    67.75.144.104
>>
>> it works fine. except .. it return different ns record
>> if i do $ns example.com
>> the data returned is
>> synth-ip-4649a790.example.com and
>> synth-ip-4649a790.example.com
>> but sometime it return ns1.anotherdomain.com and ns2.anotherdomain.com
>> but synth mostly come up (9 out of 10)
>>
>> i suspect my configuration problem. how to config to make it return
>> the
>> ns record ns1.anotherdomain.com?
>
> Your zone file actually isn't serving any NS records at all. Just by
> including ns1 and ns2 records does not magically turn them into
> nameserver records. At the absence of such records, maradns will try
> to construct NS records itself (the synth-ip ones you see).
>
> You probably want to do something like:
>
> example.com. NS ns1.anotherdomain.com.
> example.com. NS ns2.anotherdomain.com.
> example.com. 67.167.27.34
>
> and put the records for anotherdomain.com in a zone file of its own
> (don't forget the dot at the end of your hostnames!)
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Remco
>