Name server question

[Kevin Darcy]

You need to submit a HOST CHANGE through your registrar (dotster). The "com" servers
still have the old address as a glue record.


- Kevin

Jon Booth wrote:

> I recently change the IP of one of my name servers
> ganymede.lucidlogic.com
>
> When I do lookups on it it still returns the old IP address (203.45.60.48)
> so obviously it is out of action at the moment.
>
> the correct IP is 203.45.58.19
>
> dig -t any lucidlogic.com returns
> GANYMEDE.lucidlogic.com.  1d14h5m14s IN A  203.45.60.48
> EUROPA.lucidlogic.com.  1d14h5m14s IN A  144.132.2.3
> NS.NUSYSTEMS.COM.AU.    23h34m54s IN A  210.11.138.194
>
> But all (except of course the old IP of ganymede which has nothing) those
> nameservers return 203.45.58.19 for ganymede.lucidlogic.com
>
> Because it is a registered nameserver are its details kept on a root
> server or something? How do I change it? I am thinking of creating a new
> nameserver name for that new IP and redelegating but it would be easier to
> just change the IP address for ganymede wherever it is kept.
>
> Thanks for any help
> Jon
>
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Barry Margolin wrote:
>
> > In article <a2nh3d$sd7 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, wmr <rmeisner at meridia.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >Background: W2K primary dns; HP-UX 11.0 secondary dns running BIND
> > >4.9.7
> > >My Question/Problem:
> > >From my HP-UX syslog file I have this:
> > >==========================================
> > >Jan 23 03:58:51 po named[712]: NSTATS 1011776331 1010090173 Unknown=27
> > >A=1081746
> > >7 NS=1331 CNAME=1615 SOA=21752 PTR=1594879 HINFO=1 MX=154595 TXT=4
> > >AAAA=3262 33=
> > >30920 38=1819 AXFR=4 ANY=408091
> > >Jan 23 03:58:51 po named[712]: XSTATS 1011776331 1010090173 RR=1568855
> > >RNXD=2254
> > >65 RFwdR=1205324 RDupR=2142 RFail=11123 RFErr=0 RErr=1116 RAXFR=4
> > >RLame=112591 R
> > >Opts=0 SSysQ=128484 SAns=11687005 SFwdQ=1240842 SDupQ=1359134 SErr=0
> > >RQ=13048489
> > > RIQ=0 RFwdQ=1240842 RDupQ=228061 RTCP=1154 SFwdR=1205324 SFail=99619
> > >SFErr=173
> > >SNaAns=6574681 SNXD=3242659
> > >===========================================
> > >Which appears to be a zone transfer from the primary. However, the
> > >refresh rate is set on the primary for three hours. This is appearing
> > >in the syslog Every Hour. So I am not sure if this is the 'zone
> > >status' that is referred to in the O'Reilly DNS book or if this is a
> > >zone transfer.
> >
> > This is not a zone transfer, it's the hourly statistics message.  See the
> > section titled "Understanding the BIND Statistics".
> >
> > >If it is a zone transfer, the admin for that server tells me the retry
> > >is set to
> > >one hour, is this a retry? How can I tell? Does that mean that there
> > >is a problem with the zone transfer?
> > >Thanks very much in advance for any assistance!!
> >
> > Zone transfers are only performed if the zone's serial number has
> > increased.  The Refresh interval specifies how often the slave checks the
> > serial number to see if it has changed.  If there's an error while querying
> > for the serial number or while trying to perform the zone transfer, it then
> > switches to using the Retry interval.
> >
> > --
> > Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
> > Genuity, Woburn, MA
> > *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
> > Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.
> >