I've searched this site for answers to my question, but so far i haven't figured out what to do.

I've set up a name server, i've registered a name with godaddy, and in their config place for a domain name server, i don't know what to put. I have a dynamic ip, given to me by AT&T, which has since become comcast, and they also gave me a static domain name. In the godaddy config place, i've tried to put mystaticname.com and mydnscomputer.mystaticname.com, but it gives me this error message:

mystaticname.com is not a registered name server OR
mydnscomputer.mystaticname.com is not a registered name server

and when i put my.dynamic.ip.address i get

Invalid domain name extension: my.dynamic.ip.address

So i'm stuck. i've read somewhere, ( i think on this site ) that i need to register my name server with my ISP, but when I searched for "dns" and "domain name server" at comcast.com and comcast.net, i found nothing about any type of registering. I've also checked out dyndns.com, but that doesn't seem to be what i want...so how do i get godaddy.com to get the name i registered there to use my computer's domain name server?

Currently I'm using the URL forwarding, which changes mydomain.com immediately to mystaticname.com, with no other capabilities

All I want is for mydomain.com to be directed to my apache server, without changing name, and also for ftp://mydomain.com to access my ftp server, and for mail@mydomain.com to access my mail server (which is one thing i need to set up).

Thanks

I'm not an expert by any stretch, but I do know that your dynamically assigned IP address from Comcast will reverse resolve to x.x.x.state.comcast.com or something to that effect. And I don't think they'll ever change that since part of their TOS limits your ability to run servers on their network. (Yes they are super lame for this limitation).

One way around it, I believe, is to resolve to the IP address they give you, which ---if it's like mine when I used Crapcast, will be a dhcp reserved address. This means it's dynamic, but it seldom, if ever changes.

Can you use your IP address with this bigdaddyDNS service you are running? In other words, they handle the requests and forward them to your IP addressort80....something to that effect?

Anyway, good luck.

Thanks, but i think i was misunderstood. GoDaddy.com is a registrar where i can buy domain names that are normal, and not a huge string of random letters and numbers, and now i'm trying to get that registrar to acknowledge my own DNS, that is BIND 9.

As of yet, my domain name is still that of attbi.com, although comcast has bought at&t in my area (effectively changing my email address, cable (TV and internet) service provider, but i don't know if the static domain name it gives me will change). So my ip address reverse resolves still to "somenameidontwantyoutosee.attbi.com". I mentioned my isp because i have read that in order to get godaddy to see my BIND dns, I need to register it with my ISP.

Thanks anyways.

You've got to be careful with Comcast, they don't allow servers (searched long and hard on their website, poorly designed). Ok, maybe I hate Comcast, but they still monitor badwidth if you're using cable.

haha, I had the same exact problem and it wasn't until I went almost everywhere on that godaddy site that I found the "register a name server" part on the main account page. (has the green background thing). You go there and give it your IP address to your name server and the host name of it, then after it has successfully found your name server, then that's when you can specify it under your hosting name servers (the ones where you put the parked nameservers). However, I either haven't set my name server up properly or I haven't waited long enough for the name server to refresh their databases because when I put www.mydomain.us.. it doesn't come up, but when I put the name server's address, it pops up... hmm... any help?