[thelist] nameserver question

[James Hardy]

And lo; it came to pass that the great prophet, Alex Beston spake. And 
the huddled masses rejoiced to hear:
> Ok this question concerns nameservers for websites.

> Could someone with more experience in this sort of matter help me on 
> this tricky question?
> 

Hi Alex,
	First off, I am not a dns expert, I have configured my fair share of 
zones, and managed a couple of redelegations but I lack guru status, so 
if someone tells me I am wrong - I probably screwed up somewhere.

When delegating a domain to a new nameserver, only the name is usually 
needed. eg If was a hostmaster and ran nameservers called
ns1.mycompany.co.uk and ns2.mycompany.co.uk, then my customer can 
delegate his domain, hisdomain.com to those name servers no problems, 
this is because the root servers can lookup the ip address of those name 
servers themselves. As for IP addresses within hisdomain.com, well those 
are now my problem, as they have been delgated to me.

The exception to this is of course my own domain mycompany.co.uk, which 
I shall quite naturally want to host myself. As ns1 and ns2 are within 
my domain I have to tell the powers what their IP addresses are. But 
this is the only case where it is neccesary.

If you let us know the domain names in question, I would be happy to 
have a look at it's configuration and see if anything shouts out at me 
as being fubared.

MenAndMice.com has a lot of useful information and tools at 
http://www.menandmice.com/9000/9000_the_dns_place.html by the way.

James