On Thu, 10 May 2001, Gavin wrote:
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but domainz have not been able to help and suggested this list.
If an organisation as hopelessly clueless as Domainz are pointing out this list as an alternative means of support, it might explain the recent influx of "flying shooze".
We are a ChCh company with our own class C address, and as we were active on the net long before there were registrars or agents we do not have one -- I presume we are in effect our own registrar for the .nz namespace.
There is only one "registrar" for the .nz ccTLD, and that is Domainz. It's possible your organisation was selected as an agent by the totally bogus data-massaging Domainz inflicted on .nz when they migrated to their DRS system. The easy way to verify this is to see if your organisation appears in the list of agents on the Domainz web site.
We now have a .com name and wish to redirect accesses to this domain name back to our .nz address, and to do this we have to register our nameserver(s) with the Internic.
I'm guessing that by "redirect", you mean you would like an A record that points 'www.yourorganisation.com' to the same IP address as 'www.yourorganisation.co.nz', or something like that. That entry needs to go in the zone file for 'yourorganisation.com' (substitute your own domain name as appropriate). If you have name servers that are authoritative for 'yourorganisation.com', then it's easy---add or change the relevant A record and smile happily. If someone else has the authoritative servers for that zone (your US registrar, for example), then ask them to add an A record to the appropriate server(s), and again smile happily. Either of these suggestions will solve your immediate problem. If you're trying to do something more complicated than that, please read on.
The US registrar for our .com address cannot do this for us -- they say our registrar must do this for us -- but we don't have one.
Hmm. The third possibility is that you wish to shift the delegation of 'yourorganisation.com' from wherever it is now to a server you control. Note that you don't HAVE to do this---either of the solutions detailed above will solve your immediate problem. The problem is that your New Zealand-based (note: not .nz-based) name servers probably don't have host records that the US .com zone knows anything about. I'm surprised that your US registrar isn't capable of resolving this for you, but a quick way to fix it would be to submit a host record to NSI for your servers. Alternatively, you could change registrars to someone with a clue---register.com (for example) do this automatically. If you are trying to shift the delegation (for whatever reason) and you need more help, then telling us the zone you're enquiring about would help a great deal. We can work out the rest of the details (registrar, etc.) given the domain name.
Domainz cannot do this either.
Can't do much of anything, in fact. :-)
I didn't choose the US registrar, and the particular registrar that was chosen for me in the US cannot register ccTLD's -- is this the root of the problem ?.
Nope, that's not related at all. <R>< --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog