I have set up BIND9 on a machine at my home and have set up port forwarding on the router (port 53). Because I do not have a static IP address, I am using a DDNS service (no-ip.com) to get a hostname which gets it IP automatically updated.

I want to use this DNS to host zones for some other domains I registered, but when I enter my hostname that i got from no-ip at my domain registrars control panel, I get the following error:

Command Failed - Object Does Not Exist

Am I doing something wrong or is this setup not possible?

Thanks!!!

I would encourage others to reply as my understanding of this is limited but AFAIK DDNS services like no-ip.com communicate with a daemon (client) running from your server machine (such as ddclient) which is the channel for updating the public IP address such that you can set port forwarding rules for your own services that you run from within your environment.

If you want to set up zones then I would guess that you would have to set these up from within your no-ip control panel (you may have to pay for the privilege (though I am not certain on this)............ It appears you can set up zone transfers and subscribe to DNS Squared (no-IP) but this is just for the purpose (I think of setting up a redundant back up DNS for your organisation).

It seems you want to become a service provider on the back of what is possibly a free DDNS service you are subscribed to; it might be possible but will have to be described by somebody that knows a bit more about DNS/DDNS/no-ip

Ensure that you're entering the full domain name of your host with a period at the end if you're using a host that's outside the DNS domain.

For example if you're setting up foo.com and want to use ns1.bar.com then you'll need to set up the NS record as:
If you set it up as:
That will have the domain appended and treated as: ns1.bar.com.foo.com

These days many domain registrars provide DNS service as part of the registration, I'd strongly suggest you use these to host your DNS rather than having to worry about things like DNS servers, zone transfers, maintaining two separate name servers for each domain (as per RFC).

Thanks for all the replies! I contacted my domain registrar at which I tried to register my host as a DNS server for some domains, and they said that in order to do that, my host/DNS server (example.ddns.net) needs to be registered as a name server at the top level domain .net

I suppose this is not possible with a host that has a dynamic IP even if I use ddns services (because you would have to change the NS record at the top level domain each time the address changes).