Hi guys, I think you are great here...and of cource I have a question about DNS...
So I have a domain name and I decided to change my Name Servers in the account from my Registrar to my onw DNS Server that is working on my web server. I set it up and I think it works fine, beacuse when I query in it from outside i got a regular respond. So my DNS Server is where is actually the web server. Now the configuration is like this: in my domain account "<mydomain>.org" I have only one Name Server - the value is "ns.<mydomain>.com" IP, the problem is that I have waited almost 60 hours and when I query for "<mydomain>.org" in http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/ I got no domain found. When I query for my Name Server I wrote "ns.<mydomain>.org" it resolves it as an A record (Does it resolve it as an NS???). My question is why it resolves my Name Server, but it doesn't resolve my Web Server - in fact why it doesn't refer to my Name Server and then my Name Server to respond. Or my problem is to wait more?....also last question why http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/ resolve my "ns.<mydomain>.org" as an A record but not as a NS record that refers to the ip of my web server?....Did I miss something in the configuration?...or not?
And bingo I see that the status is 'INACTIVE'. I check the expiration date, and it appears to be ok. Then I check the list of name servers and there are only one. So I assume that the domain is listed as INACTIVE since you only have 1 name server. Try listing 2 of them to see if that solves the problem.
Please ask in a separate topic, cause it makes things less confusing that way. Also be sure to specify your domain when you reask the question, cause there are more than one reason a domain may be listed as INACTIVE.
Right, most registries require at least 2 name servers. I'm actually kind of surprised your registrar allowed you to only specify 1 name server. While I can't authoritively say the .ORG registry requires 2 name servers without looking it up, I consider it pretty likely.
There is actually no distinction. Your primary and secondary dns servers have equal priority when resolving domains. The Tucows OpenSRS domain manager is just being obnoxious by saying one is a primary and the other a secondary.