I was doing some typically checking up on myself at dnsreport.com when I came across this error:

ERROR: One or more of the nameservers listed at the parent servers are not listed as NS records at your nameservers. The problem NS records are:
ns2.mydomainhere.com.

I believe I can fix this by changing my A or CNAME entries to NS entries.

Does that sound correct?

...and as a follow up question...

I changed my name servers here about a month ago. I just noticed that when I go to edit my name servers my old nameserver have distinct ns1 and ns2 entries to edit, while my new ns1 and ns2 are not in there. I have go to the base domain name to find them.

I am going to keep poking around in there to see what I messed up. ANy help is appreciated.

1. It's basically saying that you have say, ns2.domain.com listed as your domain's nameserver at the registry. But your nameserver's aren't listing that nameserver's NS record when asked. You should have both an NS record and an A record for each of your nameservers in your primary domains zone.

2. By 'distinct ns1 and ns2 entries' i assume that you mean they had their own dns zone... ns1.domain.com instead of domain.com. But that's incorrect... your nameservers should have all their information listed within the base domain's zone. As you seem to have them now.

Thanks.

Should ns1/ns2 A entries point to the base domain name or the IP address? Same question for the ns entries?

Maybe you're not quite understanding what an A record, etc does...





So you'll need an A record for each of your nameservers... to map the hostname to the ip... only in the nameserver's base domain's zone. A records are simple... it's just name to ip. The name you type in will go to the IP you type in. Very simple.

Then you'll need NS records in every dns zone you have, to specify which nameservers should respond for that domain.

NS Records look like:

and so on for each nameserver that should respond for a domain.

Someone else could probably explain it better than I'm trying to do here... but, see if you can figure that out.

You are right... I did not know what an NS record was. I've only had to learn A record and CNAME records.

Your explanation was beautiful. Thanks.

Just to clarify - since the NS1 are under the right zone when adding the A records I don't have to list out the entire Nameserver (i.e. ns1.eeee.com) I only have to have an ns1 and an ns2 entry that point to an IP address.

right... just like any subdomain...

DNS is going to be the death of me.

It appears that my DNS report is clear now but something else has crept up on me.

1. When I ping the server name (servername.domain.com ) of either of my nameservers the ping responds with the name server name (ns1 / ns2.domain.com). Something seems wrong there.

2. When I am pinging some of my other servers I get a bizarre name for one of them (I assume that is old IP leas holder) and then one of them has a reverse-planet name on it. I assume the correct thing there is to get a ticket opened and get the reverse names corrected?

You must have the reverse dns of the IP you are pinging to be ns1/2.domain.com, I guess.


Yes, that's right. Just submit a DNS change request and they'll handle it for you.