Domain Name Registrar vs. Webcountry Hosting...Who do I believe?

[Mathias Körber]

> Hi Mathias
>=20
> Well .. the domain is definately unpaid as per Uniforum's records.
> and the owner is Steven Collen. If you have paid, did you fax the
> deposit slip to Uniforum ???

Not me, you mean CT_SAF! I was answering him. But your points are well =
taken.

>=20
> To answer your other question.
> Yes ... I would lodge a complaint against WebCountry and get your =
money
> back or just refuse to pay any further until they can correctly setup
> their DNS. The fact that they host 11,000+ sites means diddly squat.

I totally agree.

>=20
> The registrar Uniforum is not at fault here at all .. I register
> hundreds of domains with them a year and they DO correctly check
> for correct delegation of a zone. If a zone fails the Uniforum test
> it will fail just about any other test ... you can bank on this.

except that Uniforum seems to be using nslookup for the test, which has
subtle failure modes, especially is used in commandline mode.
I had several fights with another ccTLD on this over the last x years,
where dig showed properly set up nameservers (mine), yet nslookup threw
errors which they could not interpret correctly.
Someone should tell uniforum to use dig(1) for these tests.

>=20
> One fact that Webcountry should advertise is that they know S**T=20
> about DNS.
> Yes ... they have given you two Nameservers but they both point
> to one machine ... which no registrar will accept anymore these

Actually they gave him 2, and listed a third. I suspected that these are
actually the same machine with 3 diff IP addresses. Clearly does not
fulfil RFC2182 Section 3.1.

> days ... there must physically be two DNS servers (seperate machines)
> Also the actual zone files are NOT setup correctly either.


regards