GTLD Servers Report Different IP Address Than Zone Files

[Jens Wagner]

Stephane Bortzmeyer schrieb:

>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).
>
>  
>
Thats the way .com and .net are working, too. The question is, how often 
are both the whois-database and the dns-zone extracted from the main 
registry db, and are they extracted on exactly the same time...