From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 30 14: 6:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from badger.wordzoo.com (12-232-209-206.client.attbi.com [12.232.209.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D493637B417 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from badger.wordzoo.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by badger.wordzoo.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -5) with ESMTP id g3UL6Gnc001477; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:06:17 -0700 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:06:15 -0700 Message-ID: <87pu0gsxq0.wl@badger.wordzoo.com> From: Jared Rhine To: "Forrest W. Christian" Cc: Peter Brezny , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help host resolution mixup. In-Reply-To: <20020430100204.B33246-100000@workhorse.imach.com> References: <20020430100204.B33246-100000@workhorse.imach.com> X-Mailer: Xemacs/Wanderlust Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Forrest == forrestc@imach.com on Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:11:28 -0600 (MDT)] Forrest> There is a quite simple explanation for this. For some Forrest> reason the internic whois database still has the old ip Forrest> addresses for the nameservers. I've had this problem before too. The root cause is there is no protocol is place for the global domain registry to push modified information back to registrars. Local registrars do cache whois information, as it would be impractical for them to download the whole dataset frequently. Once they've cached the results, there's no way for NetSol (or any other registrar) to know that it has been changed by another registrar. So this isn't a NetSol specific problem (as much as I love to hate them). At one point after I transferred registrars for a domain that had nameservers, I had to contact three different registrars to ask them to manually refresh their whois cache. You should be able to write to NetSol to ask them to do that for you. It's getting impractical to do this for every registrar that runs a whois, so the general problem is intractable until the registry is able to push changes back to the registrars. I have a script laying around somewhere which checks with a list of registrars to see if their information is current. I think registrars are used to this situation; when contacted, none of them (including netsol) acted confused and whois just started returning the correct information sometime later. Also note that this situation doesn't actually break anything related to name service. The global registry ("the root servers") are the authoritative answer in all cases and all DNS queries go through that. They will always return NS records matching whatever the last registrar updated the database with. Only whois is busted. It's definitely an annoyance, though. PS. ISPs who used the information in whois (as described by one poster) instead of what's in the registry itself aren't being very careful. It's easy to query the root nameservers for the current IP instead of using whois: dig @g.gtld-servers.net. yahoo.com soa ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @g.gltd-servers.net. yahoo.com soa ; Bad server: g.gltd-servers.net. -- using default server and timer opts ; (2 servers found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 5 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; yahoo.com, type = SOA, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: yahoo.com. 30M IN SOA hidden-master.yahoo.com. hostmaster.yahoo-inc.com. ( 2002043010 ; serial 15M ; refresh 5M ; retry 1W ; expiry 10M ) ; minimum ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: yahoo.com. 17h33m49s IN NS ns1.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 17h33m49s IN NS ns2.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 17h33m49s IN NS ns3.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 17h33m49s IN NS ns4.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 17h33m49s IN NS ns5.yahoo.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.yahoo.com. 16h23m48s IN A 66.218.71.63 ns2.yahoo.com. 16h23m48s IN A 209.132.1.28 ns3.yahoo.com. 16h23m48s IN A 217.12.4.104 ns4.yahoo.com. 16h23m48s IN A 63.250.206.138 ns5.yahoo.com. 16h23m48s IN A 64.58.77.85 ;; Total query time: 46 msec ;; FROM: badger to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1 ;; WHEN: Tue Apr 30 14:05:57 2002 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 27 rcvd: 277 -- jared@wordzoo.com War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message