GTLD Servers Report Different IP Address Than Zone Files

Jeff Lasman blists at nobaloney.net
Mon Mar 29 21:58:50 UTC 2004


On Monday 29 March 2004 12:42 am, Jim Reid wrote:

> Of course. But that is beside the point. DNS is not whois and whois
> is not DNS. And since they're not the same, discrepancies between the
> two will exist even if they provided the same data. Which they don't.
> DNS and whois are different protocols after all. The point I was
> making was if someone wants to find out what's in the DNS, they have
> to consult a name server, not a whois server.

It's been our experience that whois changes seem to appear in most whois 
servers before the changes to assigned nameservers appear at the gtld 
servers.

In fact a few registries appear to show the whois changes almost 
instantly, while changes to the gtld zones seem to happen only once or 
twice a day.

I concur with your point.

Jeff
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