GTLD Servers Report Different IP Address Than Zone Files

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 06:41:33PM +0000,
 Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote 
 a message of 5 lines which said:

> BTW, it's stupid and pointless to use a whois server to check on
> what information is in the DNS. These are different protocols and
> they provide different data.

They should not. Any serious registry should do whatever it cans to
avoid discrepancies between the two sources. (The most common way,
today, is to have only one database, from which both the zone file and
the "whois data" are extracted).