problem with nameserver?

[Anon]

I have 16 IP's configured on a rh 7.2 machine, i created the zone file for the ns. I am now trying to transfer the domain that will be the nameserver to this machine. I do this via register.com because this is where the domain was registered at. In this process register.com asks me for the IP address of the machine so they can create the nameserver. But then when i give it one of the IP's on my machine they tell me that the IP is not associated with that machine?

[Anon]

Do you have a record in your /etc/hosts file that links the name you are using (probalby ns.yourdomain.com) to the ipaddress?

[dkode]

no entry in /etc/hosts, just localhost

[Anon]

I suggest you read up on /etc/hosts and how to give your system a name before you set up yourself as a nameserver. Another thing that you need to look at is the hostname. Running hostname from the commandline with the right switches will tell you what name your system thinks it is, and will let you set that name also. Just man hostname.

And finally you will need to use register.com to tell it what names your system answers to. If you only have 1 system you can do *.yourdomain.com. But I'd suggest you just let your system be listed on register.coms name servers.