How to tell when root servers contain delegated

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a8tpeh$qeh at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Tom Sellers  <tsellers at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>I have 1 NS listed in my delegations at the registrar (OpenSrs) that keeps =
>coming up as non authorative (ns2.noquestionhosting.net not authorative f=
>or mparam.com). I realized that although I know how to do a NSlookup, I'm=
> not sure how to find out if the nameservers that I delegated at the regi=
>strar have propagated?

Query the GTLD servers:

dig @a.gtld-servers.net <yourdomain> ns +norec
dig @b.gtld-servers.net <yourdomain> ns +norec
and so on

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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