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Old September 21st, 2003, 01:46 PM
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Dns Soa

My company has recently registered its domain name. Currently the DNS servers are offsite with the registrar. I wish to have the local DNS servers be used rather than those offsite.

Do I just have the registrar add an A record for my DNS server?

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Do I just have the registrar add an A record for my DNS server?

No - you need to have the registrar set your name servers as the authorative servers for your domain, then configure your name servers to answer queries for that domain.
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Okay, 2 questions. I just send them an email telling them to make my DNS servers authoritative? 2nd, creating an SOA record on my DNS servers makes them Authoritative, doesn't it?

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Old September 21st, 2003, 04:25 PM
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I just send them an email telling them to make my DNS servers authoritative?

Most registrar's provide a web-based control panel for you to log in and make this change. Or if they don't, you can email them and ask them to do it.
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2nd, creating an SOA record on my DNS servers makes them Authoritative, doesn't it?

It instructs your DNS server to answer authorative queries for that domain. But it doesn't actually make the server authorative - your registrar has to do that.

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