Ghost IP?

Mark Damrose mdamrose at elgin.cc.il.us
Sat Mar 30 19:18:09 UTC 2002


"Remco Rijnders <Remco Rijnders" <remmy at cistron.nl> wrote in message
news:a852mc$osi at pub3.rc.vix.com...
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am experiencing a problem with DNS that has me stumped.
>
> The domain webconquest.com is a domain I own. The whois registry has the
> following nameservers listed for it:
>
>    Domain servers in listed order:
>
>       SPRING.WEBCONQUEST.COM        66.33.48.187
>       SPRING2.WEBCONQUEST.COM       66.33.49.187
>
> So far so good. However, when I lookup DNS for the machine
> fall.webconquest.com I get:
>
> [picard:remmy](~)> dig fall.webconquest.com
> ...
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> fall.webconquest.com.   1d23h33m57s IN A  168.143.173.247
>
> This is not the correct IP address, even though everyone else I've asked
to
> look it up get that same IP address.

$ dig fall.webconquest.com @f.gtld-servers.net
;; ANSWER SECTION:
fall.webconquest.com.   2D IN A         168.143.173.247

Stale glue.  Delete this host record with your registrar.

>
> So, I go off and query the authorative nameserver for the domain:
>
> [picard:remmy](~)> dig fall.webconquest.com @66.33.48.187
> ...
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> fall.webconquest.com.   1D IN A         128.121.244.247
>
> Which is the correct IP. Note that bind was reloaded with /usr/sbin/ndc
> reload almost a month (!!) ago.
>
> What is going on and how can I fix it?
>
> Any insights are much appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Remco
>




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