.Info Domain Not Resolving

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed May 15 02:59:21 UTC 2002


> 
> We recently setup a .info domain for our company and I while my name
> servers seem to be working properly, no other name servers seem to be
> able to resolve it.  The domain in question is opnet.info and I have
> one A record defined for www.opnet.info.  Whois output for this domain
> correctly lists my name servers (nsatt.opnet.com and nsba.opnet.com). 
> However, they do not appear to get queried whenever anyone tries to
> resolve www.opnet.info.  In fact, dig gives the following:
> 
> dig  @uni10ns.unity.ncsu.edu www.opnet.info.
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> @uni10ns.unity.ncsu.edu www.opnet.info. 
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NXDOMAIN, id: 10
> ;; flags: qr rd ; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 1, Addit: 0
> ;; QUESTIONS: 
> ;;      www.opnet.info, type = A, class = IN
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
> info.   2017    SOA     primary-update.dns.nominum.com. 
> hostmaster.nominum.com. (
>                         100048473       ;serial
>                         3600    ;refresh
>                         1800    ;retry
>                         604800  ;expire
>                         3600 )  ;minim
> 
> 
> ;; Sent 1 pkts, answer found in time: 19 msec 
> ;; FROM: mlclient10 to SERVER: uni10ns.unity.ncsu.edu  152.1.1.208
> ;; WHEN: Tue May 14 10:44:07 2002
> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 32  rcvd: 109
> 
> and nslookup shows:
> 
> > www.opnet.info
> Server:  J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> Address:  198.41.0.10
> 
> Name:    www.opnet.info
> Served by:
> - TLD1.NOMINUM.COM
>           198.133.199.100
>           info
> - TLD2.NOMINUM.COM
>           192.100.59.100
>           info
> 
> What does nominum.com have to do with this?  They obviously don't know
> anything about this domain.
> 
> Thanks, Mark...
> 

	Contact your registrar and say that the delegation information for
	the domain is not being served.

	Nominum host the nameservers but they are not responible for data
	entry.  This is done by the registry and you talk to the registry
	via your registrar.

	Mark

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Mark Andrews, Internet Software Consortium
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