Help setting up my DNS server -- I'm stranded

I figure after two days, I'm not going to figure this out on my own. :)

I bought a dedicated server with ServerMatrix. It comes with 5 IPs and the option of running my own DNS server. Sounds good to me. They gave me the block of IPs 1.1.1.1 through 1.1.1.5 (for example) all available for the one machine.

I have a few domains, and one of them is (pretend) domainone•com. I want this to be my web site (so, www•domainone•com, which will be 1.1.1.1) and mail server (mail•domainone•com, 1.1.1.1) and ALSO my DNS servers. ns1•domainone•com (1.1.1.1) and ns2•domainone•com (1.1.1.2).

I turned on BIND and set up my DNS Zone records in what -- as far as I can tell -- is the correct format. Internally, on the server itself, everything looks good when I use the 'dig' tool to do something like:

dig @ns1.domainone.com www•myotherdomain•com

Now let's say I registered domainone.com with GoDaddy. I want to tell it that the name server for domainone•com is ns1•domainone•com ... ? BUT. That can't be right, because ns1•domainone•com doesn't exist, as far as the outside world is confused. So my question: what do I do to connect myself to the outside world?!

I know that ServerMatrix, in some way, has to set up their DNS records to point to my machine, and I've asked them to set up 'PTR' records to ns1•domainone•com and ns2.domainone.com. But heck if I know how to check if they did it right, or even what question to ask if they didn't. All I know right now is that when I do a:

dig @ns1•servermatrix•com ns1•domainone•com

all I get back is:

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
domainone•com. 86400 IN SOA domainone•com. support•domainone•com. 2004073101 900 900 1209600 86400

:\ Anyone who has advice, or can help me step through sorting this out, I'd love to hear back from you. Thanks!


Paul

 

 

 

 

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