I have recently changed the server. I booked few domains from domain people. But now whenever I try to make change the DNS info it shows error.
How can I check the info about nameserver. How can I make www.mydomain.com name server for my site like
ns1.mydomain.com
ns2.mydomain.com

Try "nslookup ns.yourdomain.com" at ur shell prompt.

And you may also enter ns.yourdomain.com in your browser. If the name server is configured properly and the IP is not used by other domain, it will shows something like this:

It Worked!
If you can see this, it means that the installation of the Apache software on this Red Hat Linux system was successful. You may now add content to this directory and replace this page.




hope this can help.

I'm not 10% certain what you're trying to do. I'm guessing that you want to use a domain name as it's own name server

ie domain.com using ns1.domain.com

Normally you'll find that your domain registrar provides a facility to register a name server for a domain name. You'll need a unique IP address for the name server that hasn't been used before. The it's done you'll be able to check this at www.crsnic.net using their DNS lookup facility.

BTW NSI have forms for registering nameservers and their IP addresses but the URL escapes me at the moment.

I have domain running but I want to have nameserver by the same domain. How can I do it?

See the notes above. You need to register the name server name and it's IP address with either your domain registrar or NetworkSolutions.

eg when you see this sort of output things will start to work.

http://www.crsnic.net/cgi-bin/whois?whois_nic=ns1.nsnoc.com&type=nameserver

If you don't register the IP address and name server name when you want to query the DNS server for the site you'll end up in a loop.

ie lookup www.domain.com. DNS server is ns1.domain.com
Now find the DNS server ns1.domain.com....... lookup the IP address for domain.com ie back to square 1.

If the registry has the IP address for the DNS server it'll be returned with the queries.

Originally posted by jolly
I have domain running but I want to have nameserver by the same domain. How can I do it?

Jolly, you need to ask your webhosting provider to setup something like ns1.yourdomain.com ns2.yourdomain.com. Both must be point to the different IP address.
If you have your own dedicated server, then setup it at /var/named.
after that, go to your registrar where you register your domain name, log into your member area and find a menu to make nameservers under your domain.
wait for 24-48 hours for the dns propagation, then you may use ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com to register any domain.
goodluck.

John, I get the feeling Jolly just has a domain hosted with a host, and now he wants aliased nameservers.

As sodapopinski said, contact your provider unless you would like to run DNS yourself on your dedicated server.

It wasn't a clear question. Biggest issue we get from customers is the registration part with NSI, so I guessed that was the issue. :-)

I may be wrong of course. He has been looking for a dedicated, but as you said, it isn't 100% clear. Ohhhh Jolly....