[lug] Domain Hosting..

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:19:09PM -0700, celttechie (Brian Jarrett) wrote:
>It's really easy to list something like ns1.qwest.net as a secondary.  A

Yeah, works fine until somone actually tries requesting data for that zone
and QWest refuses to provide it.  I don't recall who it was, but just the
other day I ran into a DNS server that would only provide recursive lookups
to their dial-ups -- I think it was Netcom.

>How could they check?  It must be that they only check to make sure that the
>server you are listing actually exists.

You can't have a record in WHOIS that points at an invalid name/IP for the
DNS servers -- those hosts have to have "host records" set up.  This also
means that you can't necessarily just point your WHOIS record at any random
host/IP -- they have to be registered as a host record.

While NSI has in the past automaticly created host records for DNS servers
that don't exist when you register a domain based on them, it can lead
to some confusion if you don't understand the process.  Sporadicly people
entering a host name suddenly get the old IP address after you've done a
change.

Sean
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