Change of IP address of nameservers

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:42:35AM +0800, Guan Sin Ong wrote:
> If I change the IP address of my nameservers, do I need to update the
> host record with Internic beside updating the domain info? Put it
> another way, does the IP address of a nameserver "hardcoded" at the
> Internic/root servers? 

Yes, and yes.

> I was thinking along this line which I am not sure whether it's correct
> or not:
> 
> foo.com's nameserver is xyz.bar.com. The IP address of xyz.bar.com has
> changed recently and the nameserver for bar.com is giving out the new IP
> address of xyz.bar.com. The DNS info of foo.com does not need to be
> updated with Internic because the root server will respond that the NS
> record for foo.com is "xyz.bar.com", which can then be resolved by
> bar.com nameserver correctly.
> 
> Am I right or wrong? The issue is whether the Internic/root server also
> keep record of and give out IP addresses of nameservers.

You should not have inconsistent information in the DNS and WHOIS
databases.

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