My Domains IP Address is being misreported by DNS servers! Help!

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu Apr 13 14:44:55 UTC 2000


In article <9c7J4.398$%4.4579 at typhoon1.san.rr.com>,
marky <mark at epiccycle.com> wrote:
>Yes, I got a bad A record. There were no delegations. I queried
>A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET and got back the wrong info.
>whois lists my nameserver. My nameserver has the correct info. My ISP's name
>server has the correct info.
>My questions is, how could this happen, and how do I correct it? If the info
>at NSI is correct, and my name server is
>correct, how could the wrong info get out there?

It sounds like the A record is installed on the root servers as a glue
record.  Since the root servers have the A record, no one ever queries your
nameserver to look it up.

To correct root server glue records, you need to submit a Host form to NSI.

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