Root servers returning A records 18 months out of date

[Pete Ehlke]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 06:58:52AM -0800, William Hargrove wrote:
> 
> If I take one of our machine names, white.dsc.net this should resolve
> to
> 213.161.73.134, but after querying some dns servers specifically the
> ROOT and GTLD servers it is still resolving to 194.200.159.195 which
> was the address it used to when we had the connection with UUnet. I
> really need to know how to solve this (sorry for such an explicit cry
> for help) but this is beginning to be a major cause of worry.
> 
The root and gtld servers do not offer recursion, so if you get an
address from them when you ask about a host, that host is listed as glue
for some domain. You need to contact your registrar and update the host
record for white.dsc.net.

-Pete