checking .us domain delegation

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:20:12AM -0600, Duane Cox wrote:
> 
> The US domain registry apparently approved the delegation of paxton.il.us to
> our nameservers... ns1.illicom.net and ns2.illicom.net but I am not sure how
> to verifty this.
> If I do a whois using whois.geektools.com server, the delegation does NOT
> look like it took place..
> 
> What is the best way to verify this...?  Can I use dig or nslookup to check
> .us domains?
> 
> Duane Cox
> dcox at coxnetwork.com

Domains is domains.

First,

nslookup -type=ns il.us OR
dig ns il.us

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> ns il.us 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 7
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;	il.us, type = NS, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
il.us.			6d23h59m19s IN NS  NS.ISI.EDU.
il.us.			6d23h59m19s IN NS  RS0.NETSOL.COM.
il.us.			6d23h59m19s IN NS  NS.UU.NET.
il.us.			6d23h59m19s IN NS  ADMII.ARL.MIL.
il.us.			6d23h59m19s IN NS  VENERA.ISI.EDU.
il.us.			6d23h59m19s IN NS  usdns.nic.us.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
NS.ISI.EDU.		20h49m2s IN A	128.9.128.127
RS0.NETSOL.COM.		3h54m39s IN A	216.168.224.206
NS.UU.NET.		1d20h40m28s IN A  137.39.1.3
ADMII.ARL.MIL.		4h52m34s IN A	128.63.5.4
ADMII.ARL.MIL.		4h52m34s IN A	128.63.31.4
VENERA.ISI.EDU.		21h55m33s IN A	128.9.176.32
usdns.nic.us.		23h59m19s IN A	198.41.3.87

...

Now, we know the il.us name serves.  So, do one of:

nslookup -type=ns paxton.il.us [one-of-the-above]  OR
dig ns paxton.il.us @[one-of-the-above]

e.g., dig ns paxton.il.us @usdns.nic.us

shows

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> ns paxton.il.us @usdns.nic.us 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      paxton.il.us, type = NS, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
paxton.il.us.           1W IN NS        ns1.illicom.net.
paxton.il.us.           1W IN NS        ns2.illicom.net.

Try the other servers.

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Joe Yao				jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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