GTLD Servers Report Different IP Address Than Zone Files

[Jens Wagner]

Hi Dennis,

www.cloakware.com is registered as a "NAMESERVER" within the .com/.net registry, and as it is usual for glue records, the dns-servers of the registry respond with the corresponding IP address directly.
You have to contact the registrar of cloakware.com to update or remove this entry.

Best regards,

Jens Wagner
CTO Key-Systems GmbH


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   Server Name: WWW.CLOAKWARE.COM
   IP Address: 207.61.93.166
   Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
   Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
   Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com


>>> Last update of whois database: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:08:58 EST <<<

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Dennis Julien wrote:

>Greetings:
>
>Can anyone shed some light on the reasons why GTLD servers would return a
>different IP for a given hostname than is indicated within an active zone
>file?
>
>For example (using dnsstuff.com):
>
>Searching for A record for www.cloakware.com at a.root-servers.net:  Got
>referral to B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
>Searching for A record for www.cloakware.com at B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.:
>Reports www.cloakware.com.
>
>www.cloakware.com.	A	IN	172800	207.61.93.166
>cloakware.com.		NS	IN	172800	mag2.magmacom.com.
>cloakware.com.		NS	IN	172800	ns1.cloakware.com.
>mag2.magmacom.com.	A	IN	172800	206.191.0.140
>ns1.cloakware.com.	A	IN	172800	207.61.93.165
>
>But, the zone file contains the following A record (with the correct IP):
>
>www             IN      A       206.191.60.52
>
>Both DNS servers for 'cloakware.com' reference the correct IP, but lookups
>continue to point back to 207.61.93.166.  Any help in tracking this down
>would be _greatly_ appreciated.
>
>__
>Dennis
>
>
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>