NS/whois problem (newbie)

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	Submit a host change request through your registrar requesting
	that www.gabbertown.com be deleted.  This assumes that
	www.gabbertown.com in not a offical nameserver for some
	zone.  Otherwise submit a change request with the new IP
	address.

	Mark

> There is something strange going on during the hostname lookup of one
> of my domains - the domain gabbertown.com. I used it mainly for
> testing several (free and paid) DNS services. 
> 
> Finally, I built a website on VirtualAve, and pointed the NS for that
> domain to the nameservers of VirtualAve (ns1/ns2.freevirtual.net). The
> hostname gabbertown.com resolves correctly to the IP address of a
> VirtualAve server, but strangely enough, www.gabbertown.com does NOT
> resolve to the same address -  in stead, it still resolves to an IP
> address I pointed it to in an A record while testing one of the
> (other) DNS services (I believe it was granitecanyon.com). 
> 
> It should resolve to the same IP address gabbertown.com resolves to,
> and I have _no_ idea where/how to change the record for
> www.gabbertown.com, I am a newbie on this area.
> 
> Looking at the output of the whois queries below, it looks a bit like
> a virtual host/domain, I guess.
> 
> #whois gabbertown.com:
>    Domain Name: GABBERTOWN.COM
>    Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
>    Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
>    Referral URL: www.opensrs.org
>    Name Server: NS1.FREEVIRTUAL.NET
>    Name Server: NS2.FREEVIRTUAL.NET
>    Updated Date: 17-feb-2001
> ==> this seems to be correct
> 
> #whois gabbertown.com:
>    Server Name: WWW.GABBERTOWN.COM
>    IP Address: 194.109.62.251
>    Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
>    Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
>    Referral URL: www.opensrs.org
> ==> I have NO idea how this got here? ;-)
> 
> #host -a gabbertown.com
> gabbertown.com          NS      NS1.FREEVIRTUAL.NET
> gabbertown.com          NS      NS2.FREEVIRTUAL.NET
> gabbertown.com          SOA     ns1.virtualave.NET
> hostmaster.virtualave.NET (
>                         1       ;serial (version)
>                         900     ;refresh period (15 minutes)
>                         300     ;retry interval (5 minutes)
>                         604800  ;expire time (1 week)
>                         3600    ;default ttl (1 hour)
>                         )
> ==> this seems to be correct again
> 
> #host -a www.gabbertown.com
> www.gabbertown.com      A       194.109.62.251
> ==> ...and this is wrong
> 
> ==== 
> Now I want to check the A record on the VirtualAve nameservers:
> =====
> 	#nslookup www.gabbertown.com
> 	Server:  ns1.freevirtual.net
> 	Address:  208.146.45.4
> 
> 	Name:    www.gabbertown.com
> 	Address:  208.146.45.41
> ==> this seems to be correct
> 
> 
> Is there anybody who an explain _where_ there is some
> "www.gabbertown.com --> 194.109.62.251"
> record, and how/where I can change or delete it?
> 
> The 194.109.62.251 is a static IP address our company is now actually
> using for webmail, and it's pretty stupid that everyone surfing to
> www.gabbertown.com is seeing our webmail login screen...
> 
> Any help would really be appreciated!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Matthijs Koot
> ACSI International Campingguide
> (department of IT)
> 
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Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com