At 12/2/03 3:56 PM, Adam Debus wrote:
>A few weeks ago we updated the IP Addresses on some of our name servers
>entries:
>
>dns1.connectcorp.net
>dns2.connectcorp.net
>ns1.delsol.net
>ns2.delsol.net
>
>Today, I was doing a whois on a customer domain (they are registered through
>register.com) and saw that it still was pointing to the old IP Addresses for
>the servers...is there something else I should have done, other then change
>the registration in the opensrs interface?
As Chuck said, WHOIS has nothing to do with how a domain works. IP
addresses shown in WHOIS lookups are meaningless and often misleading.
Registrars (especially registrars like NSI that inexplicably still cache
this information after a domain has been transferred away from them)
should not show IP addresses in WHOIS queries, for exactly this reason.
If you want to find out what IP addresses a domain name is using for
nameserver resolution, use a tool like nslookup or dig:
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$ dig ns1.delsol.net A @a.gtld-servers.net
;; ANSWER SECTION:
ns1.delsol.net. 172800 IN A 216.177.224.2
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You're also welcome to use my own tool that automates this process with
all the nameservers for a TLD:
http://www.tigertech.net/cgi-bin/domaincheck.cgi
Just type in a domain name and it will show you the nameservers used for
that domain, together with the IP addresses that the TLD's nameservers
are returning as glue, if any. (The script is just doing the equivalent
of a few dozen simultaneous dig lookups for you.)
-- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies http://www.tigertech.net/"Thank you, drive through."
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