setting up local authorative name server with a no-ip.com registered domain

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> I have 3 domains that are registered with no-ip.com 
> (istudentunion.com, org and net).  All three are also using their 
> "no-ip plus" service which provides both static and dynamic resolution 
> via  their nameservers.   When I configure the domains nameservers to 
> be theirs everything works great (for the most part), but when I 
> change the nameservers to my own sites BIND (base 7.3-RELEASE) I can 
> get everything to resolve locally and via dig/host/nslookup remotely 
> (if and only if I specify the nameserver by IP).   What appears to be 
> happing is this:
>
> ~/Desktop:aryeh at flosoft% !d
> dig ns istudentunion.org +trace
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.4.3-P2 <<>> ns istudentunion.org +trace
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> .            463753    IN    NS    I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .            463753    IN    NS    C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .            463753    IN    NS    L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .            463753    IN    NS    K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .            463753    IN    NS    M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .            463753    IN    NS    A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .            463753    IN    NS    E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .            463753    IN    NS    B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .            463753    IN    NS    H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .            463753    IN    NS    D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .            463753    IN    NS    G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .            463753    IN    NS    F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .            463753    IN    NS    J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> ;; Received 500 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) in 0 ms
>
> org.            172800    IN    NS    B2.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.org.
> org.            172800    IN    NS    A2.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.INFO.
> org.            172800    IN    NS    C0.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.INFO.
> org.            172800    IN    NS    B0.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.org.
> org.            172800    IN    NS    A0.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.INFO.
> org.            172800    IN    NS    D0.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.org.
> ;; Received 437 bytes from 192.203.230.10#53(E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 86 ms
>
> istudentunion.org.    86400    IN    NS    ns2.istudentunion.org.
> istudentunion.org.    86400    IN    NS    ns1.istudentunion.org.
> ;; Received 103 bytes from 199.19.54.1#53(B0.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.org) in 
> 88 ms
>
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>
>
Quick additional note we upgraded all 3 domains to no-ip plus because 
they assured us that we could run our own dns