root nameserver has stale entry

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 11:42:46AM -0500,
 Liebler, Justin <jliebler at agoc.com> wrote 
 a message of 48 lines which said:

> It is a .net TLD that was registered with Network Solutions.  I
> tried calling them earlier in the week and could have just been the
> person that I was talking to was clueless

May be. You can use whois to check that the ".net" registry indeed
knows the old IP address:

whois -h whois.verisign-grs.com YOURNAMESERVER.net
whois -h whois.networksolutions.com YOURNAMESERVER.net