Windows DNS

[soshimo]

I was wondering if someone savy in windows administration can review my actions to ensure that what I did was correct. It's been about 4 hours now and a ping of my domain still times out with the error that host information could not be found.

Here are my steps:
1. Installed DNS Via Server Configuration Tool
2. Aside from the default name records created, I also created a Forward Zone (A Record) and associated the IP with the my VPS assigned IP.
3. Rebooted for good measure (it's windows remember)
4. Went to godaddy.com, Manage Domain, chose my domain and added two name servers NS1.MYDOMAIN.COM and NS2.MYDOMAIN.COM. I used the two IP's assigned to me for my VPS.
5. I selected custom nameserver option after clicking the original nameserver link and added NS1.MYDOMAIN.COM and NS2.MYDOMAIN.COM to list of custom nameservers.
6. Waited 4 hours and pinged every 15 minutes.

Could this be a propagation issue? On another VPS I have, which have their own nameservers, I just added an A record for my VPS IP and in about 30 minutes my pings were returning the new IP. Could it also be a firewall issue? Maybe the registrar controllers can't talk to my name server?

Please advise and thank you in advance for any help.

[soshimo]

Okay, here's an update.

A ping of www.MYDOMAIN.COM (http://www.MYDOMAIN.COM) returns the proper IP, but a ping of MYDOMAIN.COM still returns with a host not found error so it must be a minor error in my A record. I'm going to check it out and if it fixes the problem will post back.

[soshimo]

Okay, final update. Success! I needed to add an A record for just MYDOMAIN.COM as well as one for *.MYDOMAIN.COM. I also ended up doing some research and found that DNS runs on port 53 UDP/TCP so I opened those two ports up on the firewall.