I did an nslookup on ns.heftyhosting.com and it's not resolving yet... here's what I did to the DNS zone: $TTL 3600 @ IN SOA ns.heftyhosting.com. postmaster.ns.heftyhosting.com. 2001120602 10800 3600 604800 3333 @ IN A 66.33.80.195 @ IN A 66.33.81.195 ftp.heftyhosting.com. IN A 66.33.80.195 heftyhosting.com. IN MX 10 mail.heftyhosting.com. heftyhosting.com. IN NS ns.heftyhosting.com. heftyhosting.com. IN NS ns2.heftyhosting.com. heftyintro IN CNAME heftyhosting.com. mail.heftyhosting.com. IN A 66.33.80.195 www.heftyhosting.com. IN A 66.33.80.195 ======================================== when I do 'hostname' I get this: [root@ns /]# hostname ns.heftyhosting.com [root@ns /]# ======================================== [root@ns /]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=ns.heftyhosting.com GATEWAY=66.33.80.1 [root@ns /]# nslookup says: [root@ns /]# nslookup ns.heftyhosting.com Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 *** localhost can't find ns.heftyhosting.com: Non-existent host/domain [root@ns /]# ======================================== what must I do now? dialtone has a system to update PTR records via email autoresponder... is that what's missing? Many Thanks' David Bruce Jr. Administrator http://www.heftyhosting.com