Changing NS record

[Bryan Irvine]

6?  I got 17. =20

You were lucky. In my day people had to send a million messages to get
anybody to help, and then usually they'd just say RTFA.



On 8/25/05, G. Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org> wrote:
> Did you forget something?  Yes you forgot to stop spamming the list. 6
> nessages in the space of 3 minutes is most unfriendly when you want
> help.
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> On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 10:57 -0400, Bind Mailing List wrote:
> > I forgot to tell you that we host 3000 domains so we'll have to follow =
these
> > steps I think:
> > - We'll have to change the NS records for all of the zones (3000) that =
we
> > host (easy).
> > - We'll have to ask ARIN to modify the DNS for all of our address range=
s (a
> > lot of work).
> > - We'll have to ask every registrars (for all of our 3000 clients) to c=
hange
> > the NS records (a lot of work too, oh my god).
> > - We'll have to ask all of our clients that we are secondary DNS to cha=
nge
> > the NS record in their zones.
> >
> > Did I forget somethings?
> > Can I simplify some steps? By contacting icann.org or cira.ca? By any o=
ther
> > methods?
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Andrews" <Mark_Andrews at isc.org>
> > To: "Bind Mailing List" <bind_ml40 at telusquebec.net>
> > Cc: <bind-users at isc.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 7:16 PM
> > Subject: Re: Changing NS record
> >
> >
> > >
> > > > We are an ISP and would like to change one of our DNS (NS record). =
Our
> > regist
> > > > rar is networksolution.
> > > > Do we have only to ask our registrar (networksolution) for the chan=
ge?
> > > > Do we have to do something else?
> > > > Who feed the root servers for these changes?
> > > > Do we have to call ICANN for this change?
> > > > Do we have to call ARIN?
> > > > Thanks a lot for your help!
> > >
> > > You change the NS RRset in the zone then inform the parent
> > > of the changes.  Note you should not try to change all the
> > > NS records at once.
> > >
> > > Depending apon the zone and where it is in the heirarchy you
> > > will need to take to different people.  Assuming the zone is
> > > immediately below a infrastucture zone.
> > > * For a forward zone then you need to talk to the registrar for
> > >   the zone (in your case networksolutions).
> > > * For the reverse zone you need to talk to the RIR (in your case
> > >   ARIN).
> > >
> > > If it is not immediately below a infrastucture zone then you should
> > > be able to strip the lefthand label and query for the SOA record
> > > using the resulting name.  This will normally return the parents
> > > SOA record either in the answer section or in the authority section
> > > when there is multiple levels in the parent zone.  Note some older
> > > nameservers may not return the SOA in the later case so you strip
> > > another label and repeat.
> > >
> > > Once you have the SOA record the second field should have the
> > > email address of whom to contact at the parent.
> > >
> > > Mark
> > > --
> > > Mark Andrews, ISC
> > > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> > > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews at isc.org
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> --
> G. Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org>
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