Where would one go to register a DNS server.

Is it network solutions?

Here is what I get when I do a dig on the name server

[root@ns1 /root]# dig ns2.hosting.com

; <<>> DiG 9.1.0 <<>> ns2.hosting.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 12677
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ns2.hosting.com. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com. 3584 IN SOA A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. hostmaster.nsiregistry.NET. 2001061801 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: *.*.*.5#53(*.*.*.5)
;; WHEN: Tue Jun 19 15:47:12 2001
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 118

Is the above correct, if so, I am unable to ping it?
As it was all working fine yesterday?

What should I have in my named.conf

You don't have to register your name server generally.
But with every domain registrar you use, you have to register (or at least provide them with url and ip) your name server.
There isn't a central place to register your servers.

- domi

Is the following correct?

$TTL 86400
*.*.*.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ns1.host.com. root.host.com. (
2001042104
10800
3600
604800
86400 )
187 IN NS ns1.host.com.
44 IN NS ns1.host2.com.
44 IN PTR ns1.host2.com.
187 IN PTR ns1.host.com.
ns1.host.com. IN A *.*.*.44
ns1.host2.com. IN A *.*.*.187

Actually, you generally do need to register your nameserver before you can use it to host domains with. Usually you register the nameserver with the registrar your domain is registered with (be it NetSol, register.com, OpenSRS, etc.). Then your registrar enters your nameserver into the Internic db, which the other registrars usually check against.

A whois on the nameserver dns (eg. ns1.planetz.net) using whois.internic.net should result in the following:

Server Name: NS1.PLANETZ.NET
IP Address: 208.237.120.200
Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org

Yes, you may have to register your name servers if they have not been done for you. I had to register the ones I recieved from my hosting provider.(took me 2 days to figure that one out)

But, if they were working before, something else could be wrong.

I registered my domains through dotster(don't work for them, but really like them, easy to use), and they sent my registrations in to www.nsiregistry.com.

I had to key in the name server name and IP address, and they did the rest. A day later I was up and resolving.