How do people on the Internet find my name server?

Answered Mon, 31 Dec 2001

> We are setting up a Windows NT Domain Name Server and would like to know
> what the mechanism is by which your site information gets into other DNS
> servers out on the internet. It seems to be working as far as stuff going
> out, but when we try to get into the website or send mail to this site, we
> can not, because it has not propagated out. We have waited for some time
> and it still has not propagated out. What records do we have to have in our
> DNS tables in order for this to happen?

You need to make sure that your parent zone's name servers have correct delegation to your name server. For example, if your zone is foo.com, your parent zone is com, and you need to have a com registrar delegate foo.com to your name server so that others on the Internet can resolve domain names in foo.com.

For a list of registrars for com, net and org, see

http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html

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