Here is my question: Currently our ISP is the register DNS server for our internet domain name, which is setup through Network Solutions.
Now I have setup our own DNS server with a zone for our domain name, I have the local users here and offsite use this DNS server for their main DNS and it works fine, but now I want to have all queries from the outside world that want to get to our domain name, to use this DNS server. But, I also want to have our ISP’s DNS server to be the secondary in case ours fails.
So, what I intended on doing is: Access my account through Network Solutions website, and edit the listed DNS servers for this domain(we’ll call it MYDOMAIN for example). Now, here is where I am confused. I originally was going to put the IP address of our DNS server as the primary and leave our ISP’s DNS server as the secondary, but you can only enter in fully qualified domain names,, not ip addresses.. So, now if I put in for example, NS.MYDOMAIN.COM .. how would anyone get to WWW.MYDOMAIN.COM because you need to go to NS.MYDOMAIN.COM to get to WWW.MYDOMAIN.COM.. how is that going to work.. I am confused. Can anyone help? Thanks.