GTLD Servers Report Different IP Address Than Zone Files

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c41tl3$2fii$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> 
wrote:

> 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. That data may not even come from the same
> source. Just because some name and IP address is in some TLD's whois
> database doesn't mean it'll be in the TLD's zone file. Or vice versa.

Aren't the zone files for the domains hosted by the GTLD servers 
produced from the same database that WHOIS queries?

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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