"Ghost" Host record - moving DNS to a new IP

[Barry Margolin]

In article <abjivm$deck$1 at isrv4.isc.org>,
Torsten Mueller  <torsten at archesoft.de> wrote:
>
>Barry Margolin schrieb:
>
>> >Is there a way to delete this record NS8822-HST (i didn't create it) ?
>> >Is there a way to find out, who created this record (to ask him/her to
>> >delete the
>> >record) ?
>> 
>> As far as I know, Host objects in the ARIN database do not get put into DNS
>> (glue records are never needed in IN-ADDR.ARPA).  In any case, that host
>> object exists because the following network registration references it.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>How did you find this reference out ? 

whois -h whois.arin.net server nn8822-hst

>(Between, i don't understand the need for host records at arin, if glue
>records are not needed.)

I think it's just due to the design of their database.  Host records are
where hostnames are stored, and they also contain IP addresses.  When ARIN
spun off from InterNIC, they simply copied the database schema and imported
all the address records and the host records that they referenced.  


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