NS A Records

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NS A Records

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According to reports at dnsstuff.com I should fix this error (but i don't know how)

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WARNING: Your nameservers do not include any corresponding A records when asked for your NS records. They probably are not returning the A records when asked, which can prevent some other DNS servers from contacting your DNS servers. They should do this if they are authoritative for those A records. The problem record(s) are: 

Nameserver my.server.ip.address did not provide any IPs
Nameserver my.server.ip.address did not provide any IPs
Now, I have a dedicated server, so i'm pretty much on my own with figuring out this stuff. And I don't really know what to search for regarding this topic.

Can someone lend me a pointer. :)
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In simplified terms: A records point to IP addresses, CNAMEs point to A records, MX point to A records and have preference level. The values for basic domain might have values something like this:

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mydomain.com. 	Address Record (A) 	111.222.333.444
mydomain.com. 	Mail Exchange Record (MX) 	preference=10, host=mydomain.com.
localhost. 		Address Record (A) 	127.0.0.1 	
www.mydomain.com. 	 Canonical Name (CNAME) 	mydomain.com.
ftp.mydomain.com. 	 Canonical Name (CNAME) 	mydomain.com.
smtp.mydomain.com. 	Canonical Name (CNAME) 	mydomain.com.
pop.mydomain.com. 	 Canonical Name (CNAME) 	mydomain.com.
imap.mydomain.com. 	Canonical Name (CNAME) 	mydomain.com.
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