Interesting problem.

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:35:59PM +0000, Nicole Wagner wrote:
> Alright, I've exhausted all of my resources on this problem and believe it
> is now time to take it up with a newsgroup.
> 
> Here's the situation. I aquired a new domain after this particular clients
> provider at the time had closed up shop. I figured it wouldn't be difficult
> to transfer the domain, but here's the situation. I went ahead and
> transferred the domain through NSI and it showed up with the appropriate
> name servers, however, everything upon lookups shows up just
> fine.......except the ip address. No matter what name servers this domain
> has been moved to, I cannot shake their prior ip address. I moved it from my
> name servers to that of Verio seeing as they were the backbone for both my
> company, and the previous company that hosted the domain. I believe the most
> interesting part to be that the mx record is showing up appropriately, I
> just can't seem to figure out why the ip isn't changing.
> 
> Any ideas? Feel free to interrogate me, I've tried everything under the sun
> from jacking serial numbers within the records, to switching providers, to
> spending hours on the phone with NSI. Has anyone else seen this problem
> before, or know what I may have missed?

This has been seen often before.  Usually, the name server's old IP is
stuck in the parent domain servers - which may be the root servers.
Since you don't say what it is, we can't test it.  But it has to have
been previously defined, and of you never asked the parent domain to
explicitly UN-define it, it will still be there.

It's sad that NSI help desk folk can't recognize a FAQ.

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