My Domains IP Address is being misreported by DNS servers! Help!

[Kevin Darcy]

Okay, this is getting confusing. You say that you followed the delegations and
got a bad A record. And you say that WHOIS lists your nameserver. So, did you
get the bad A record from your nameserver? Apparently not, since you say the
information is correct on your nameserver. Did you get the bad A record from
some server that is providing secondary service for your domain? Then talk to
them. Or did the delegations not match the WHOIS record? Then take that up with
NSI. Or perhaps the *name* of your server is correct in the
delegation/WHOIS record, but the *address* associated with that name is wrong.
If that's the case, then submit a host record update to NSI.

If you had actually told us what name you were having a problem with, what
address it should be pointing to, and what the address of your server is, we
probably could have already pinpointed where the problem lies. But, since you
have chosen not to, we're still at the guessing and speculation stage...


- Kevin

marky wrote:

> Thanx! It returns an A record, and that A record is wrong. But the
> information is correct on our nameserver,
> and a network solutions whois is pointing to our server. In this case, who
> do you contact to find out what
> is happening?
>
> "Barry Margolin" <barmar at bbnplanet.com> wrote in message
> news:3KNE4.15$YN6.1296 at burlma1-snr2...
> > In article <6LBE4.89622$8k3.756355 at news1.rdc1.sdca.home.com>,
> > Marky <markyh at home.com> wrote:
> > >Dan - thanx for the tip. I noticed that the root servers are also caching
> > >the wrong data.
> >
> > The root servers are non-caching servers, so anything they have should
> come
> > from the WHOIS database.  If they have a wrong A record, you must have the
> > host registered in WHOIS.
> >
> > >I'm beside myself here, how do I follow a delegation path? Sorry for a
> > >simple question,
> >
> > dig <name> a @<server> +norecurse
> >
> > where <name> is the fully-qualified name that you're trying to look up,
> and
> > <server> is the server name in the delegation (start with
> > a.root-servers.net).  If it returns the A record, you've completed the
> > process; if it returns a bunch of NS records, query them similarly.
> >
> > --
> > Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
> > GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA
> > *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to
> newsgroups.
> > Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the
> group.
> >
> >
> >