corrupted record or domain really just on hold ?

[Mike Tancsa]

One of our customers is having problems with their domain.  The Internic
claimed at first it was the fault of the ISP.  When we called them, they
then said it was a billing issue and that they just received the cheque
today in the mail and had yet to be processed.  However, when I checked
their online payments page, it said there was no money owed, implying it
was processed... This at 9am EST and got delisted this AM!?!  Anyways,
after the second call, they said it would be in the 5pm update.  Then when
we called after 5pm to see what was up, they said it was an ISP issue.
Yet, when I querry the A root nameserver I get a response I am not familiar
with.  After some more discussion, they said it was a propagation issue,
and that after the next update, we would see it globally across all the
name servers (we dont even see it on the A server)

For example, I am used to seeing the following response to a domain that
does not exists. e.g.

wat-border% nslookup
Default Server:  granite.sentex.ca
Address:  199.212.134.1

> set type=ns
> lserver b.root-servers.net
Default Server:  b.root-servers.net
Address:  128.9.0.107

> sdfsdfsdf33.net.
Server:  b.root-servers.net
Address:  128.9.0.107

*** b.root-servers.net can't find sdfsdfsdf33.net.: Non-existent
host/domain

As compared to their record in question,
> rim.net.
Server:  b.root-servers.net
Address:  128.9.0.107

net
        origin = A.ROOT-SERVERS.net
        mail addr = hostmaster.INTERNIC.net
        serial = 1999072700
        refresh = 1800 (30 mins)
        retry   = 900 (15 mins)
        expire  = 604800 (7 days)
        minimum ttl = 86400 (1 day)
> 

which is I guess the SOA for net. ?  Also, does that imply the last update
really was on the 27th ? And that there was none today ?
> set type=soa
> net.
Server:  b.root-servers.net
Address:  128.9.0.107

net
        origin = A.ROOT-SERVERS.net
        mail addr = hostmaster.INTERNIC.net
        serial = 1999072700
        refresh = 1800 (30 mins)
        retry   = 900 (15 mins)
        expire  = 604800 (7 days)
        minimum ttl = 86400 (1 day)

Compared to normal NS response I am used to seeing

> set type=ns
> aol.com.
Server:  b.root-servers.net
Address:  128.9.0.107

Non-authoritative answer:
aol.com nameserver = DNS-02.NS.aol.com
aol.com nameserver = DNS-01.NS.aol.com

Authoritative answers can be found from:
DNS-02.NS.aol.com       internet address = 205.188.157.232
DNS-01.NS.aol.com       internet address = 198.81.17.232
> 


Any ideas anyone ?

	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa at sentex.net)		
Sentex Communications Corp,   		
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Who is this 'BSD', and why should we free him?"