[ale] Bind newbie question

[John Wells]

Doesn't this:

[/home/jwells]-) dig ns.devsea.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> ns.devsea.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 58107
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ns.devsea.com.                 IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ns.devsea.com.          3600    IN      A       66.23.197.142

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
devsea.com.             3600    IN      NS      PARK9.SECURESERVER.NET.
devsea.com.             3600    IN      NS      PARK10.SECURESERVER.NET.

;; Query time: 90 msec
;; SERVER: 63.239.86.1#53(63.239.86.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Sep 18 09:30:08 2003
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 104

imply that the changes have already propogated?  It's resolving, and I can
ping it.  It's obviously in their name server.  I set it up as an A
record.  What else do I need?

Thanks for your continued help!

John

James P. Kinney III said:
> Yep. Patience!  It takes 24-48 hours for the changes to take effect with
> GoDaddy. Once you have a machine registered with them (using the domain
> host information link on the domain info page), THEN you can set up DNS
> services on that machine, THEN you can go back and register it as a DNS
> server. When you tell their page that ns.devsea.com is to be a DNS
> server for devsea.com, all they do is look to see if they have a host
> record for the machine. You can't use a machine with a domain hosted
> elsewhere (Earthlink, Speakeasy, etc). It apparently MUST be a host
> record for a domain hosted at GoDaddy.
>
> So it looks like I have figured out how to do this with out the extra
> $20 advanced DNS zone-file editing fee. :)
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