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WHOIS host records and ip addresses



On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:35 PM, John Abreau <jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Thanks, but that's showing me DNS data, not WHOIS data.
> The problem was, I had NS records in DNS of the form
>

Looks like my second response yesterday bounced because it was too large.

The IP you had was from your DNS server, but the IP that your Registrar
(GoDaddy, Register.com, etc) lists with the Registry (Verisign for com/net,
Public Internet Registry for org, etc) which get's published to the root
zone files isn't controlled by your DNS server. You have to manually update
it with your Registrar.  Some registrar's publish not only your whois and
nameserver information in DNS but they used to publish your registered
nameserver IPs.  A lot of them have stopped doing this.  That said, I forgot
to add +recurse to my dig

See section below where it say <start here> and <end here>, this is querying
the root servers (h.gtld-servers.net in this case) and it shows that I've
told sysadminvalley.com to use ns1.beantownhost.com and ns2.beantownhost.com.
In the additional section, it shows that I've registered an IP for each of
the ns servers.  The next paragraph after <end here> shows my client then
using that to query my nameservers.


yukon1:~ mshields$ dig www.sysadminvalley.com +trace +recurse +all

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> www.sysadminvalley.com +trace +recurse +all

;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18866

;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 13

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;.                IN    NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
.            13352    IN    NS    l.root-servers.net.
.            13352    IN    NS    m.root-servers.net.
.            13352    IN    NS    i.root-servers.net.
.            13352    IN    NS    b.root-servers.net.
.            13352    IN    NS    e.root-servers.net.
.            13352    IN    NS    h.root-servers.net.
.            13352    IN    NS    d.root-servers.net.
.            13352    IN    NS    c.root-servers.net.
.            13352    IN    NS    k.root-servers.net.
.            13352    IN    NS    f.root-servers.net.
.            13352    IN    NS    j.root-servers.net.
.            13352    IN    NS    a.root-servers.net.
.            13352    IN    NS    g.root-servers.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
l.root-servers.net.    86056    IN    A    199.7.83.42
m.root-servers.net.    79748    IN    A    202.12.27.33
i.root-servers.net.    86276    IN    A    192.36.148.17
b.root-servers.net.    86276    IN    A    192.228.79.201
e.root-servers.net.    86276    IN    A    192.203.230.10
h.root-servers.net.    86276    IN    A    128.63.2.53
d.root-servers.net.    86276    IN    A    128.8.10.90
c.root-servers.net.    86276    IN    A    192.33.4.12
k.root-servers.net.    86056    IN    A    193.0.14.129
f.root-servers.net.    86276    IN    A    192.5.5.241
j.root-servers.net.    86056    IN    A    192.58.128.30
a.root-servers.net.    86276    IN    A    198.41.0.4
g.root-servers.net.    86276    IN    A    192.112.36.4

;; Query time: 1 msec

;; SERVER: 192.168.100.7#53(192.168.100.7)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 13:49:01 2010

;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 449

;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 17309

;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 14

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.sysadminvalley.com.        IN    A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com.            172800    IN    NS    a.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    f.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    e.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    d.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    g.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    i.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    b.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    m.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    k.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    l.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    h.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    c.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    j.gtld-servers.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.5.6.30
a.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    AAAA    2001:503:a83e::2:30
b.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.33.14.30
b.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    AAAA    2001:503:231d::2:30

c.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.26.92.30
d.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.31.80.30
e.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.12.94.30
f.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.35.51.30
g.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.42.93.30
h.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.54.112.30
i.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.43.172.30
j.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.48.79.30
k.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.52.178.30
l.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.41.162.30

;; Query time: 27 msec
;; SERVER: 192.33.4.12#53(c.root-servers.net)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 13:49:02 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 512

<start here>
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23962

;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.sysadminvalley.com.        IN    A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
sysadminvalley.com.    172800    IN    NS    ns1.beantownhost.com.
sysadminvalley.com.    172800    IN    NS    ns2.beantownhost.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.beantownhost.com.    172800    IN    A    209.160.26.114
ns2.beantownhost.com.    172800    IN    A    209.160.26.176

;; Query time: 104 msec
;; SERVER: 192.54.112.30#53(h.gtld-servers.net)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 13:49:02 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 121
<end here>

;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28321

;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.sysadminvalley.com.        IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.sysadminvalley.com.    300    IN    CNAME    sysadminvalley.com.
sysadminvalley.com.    300    IN    A    209.160.37.69

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
sysadminvalley.com.    86400    IN    NS    ns1.beantownhost.com.
sysadminvalley.com.    86400    IN    NS    ns2.beantownhost.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.beantownhost.com.    14400    IN    A    209.160.26.114
ns2.beantownhost.com.    14400    IN    A    209.160.26.176

;; Query time: 92 msec
;; SERVER: 209.160.26.176#53(ns2.beantownhost.com)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 13:49:02 2010
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;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 151

-matt






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