root servers don't know me????

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7ph8k6$1ap$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <habanero69 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>i have a domain exitflorida.com that i host. my two dns servers work
>fine for resolving this domain.  when pointing to a root server, it
>will return my two dns servers if i enter "exiflorida.com" (it
>echo's "exitflorida.com.flipag.net", why?).  if i add the period on the

You're getting that long name because nslookup is making use the the
"search" or "domain" directive in your resolv.conf and appending a default
domain.

>end of com for exitflorida like "exitflorida.com.", the root servers
>fail with invalid domain. I host multiple sites and they all work

Putting a period at the end of a name indicates that it's fully resolved
and the resolver shouldn't try appending default domains.

>except 3 that contain the "exit...."  domain names (exitflorida.com,
>exitexclusive.com, and exitexclusive.net)

They're on hold, probably for non-payment.  Unfortunately, the
payments.networksolutions.com web page seems to be broken.  You'll have to
call NSI to find out why they're on hold.

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