soa.granitecanyon.com down?

sts+dejanews at senator.colospgs.co.us sts+dejanews at senator.colospgs.co.us
Fri Sep 10 08:20:05 UTC 1999


In article <Sam.Wilson-0709991015000001 at mcfadzean.ucs.ed.ac.uk>,
  Sam.Wilson at ed.ac.uk (Sam Wilson) wrote:
> ...In fact the whois record has a
> different list of nameservers for the granitecanyon.com domain than
> GC's servers are giving out - timely maintenance seems to be lacking.

You may not have noticed that the list given out by the
name servers is a superset of the list given out by the
WHOIS query. This is deliberate. That way the primary
name servers which receive the initial queries about
Granite Canyon are those listed in the WHOIS record.
Once that query has been made the full set of NS records
is available for subsequent queries. Then, due to cleverness
in most DNS resolver implementations, the "best" name server
may be selected.

-Steve Senator, for the Public DNS


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