hi list,

i have recently failed to get a cascaded router configuration to work,
so i removed the second router and am now just using the att provided
router (arris bgw210700).

Worse, I made erroneous assumptions and managed to shoot myself in the foot.

I am revisiting earlier provided dns  setup and run into the following issue.

I get as far as whois and things appear to fall apart...

host linuxlighthouse.com
linuxlighthouse.com has address 108.220.213.121

host 108.220.213.121
121.213.220.108.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer unknown5065f34aece5.attlocal.net.

whois linuxlighthouse.com
[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[Redirected to whois.networksolutions.com]
[Querying whois.networksolutions.com] <timeout>

systemctl systemctl status named
Unit named.service could not be found.

so i am not running named and it looks to me like whois networksolutions is confused.

dig sez, ...

dig linuxlighthouse.com any

; <<>> DiG 9.16.27-RH <<>> linuxlighthouse.com any
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23677
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;linuxlighthouse.com. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
linuxlighthouse.com. 3789 IN HINFO "RFC8482" ""
linuxlighthouse.com. 169243 IN NS ns21.worldnic.com.
linuxlighthouse.com. 169243 IN NS ns22.worldnic.com.

;; Query time: 31 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53)
;; WHEN: Mon Apr 11 13:04:27 PDT 2022
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 116

my luck guessing how to proceed is 0 for 0 so,
what is the wisdom on this list as to how to proceed?

tia, ...