registrar owns '.' ?

[Dawn Connelly]

Something is definitely hosed...the whois database shows something different
than what the root servers have. Here's the whois:
Domain Name.......... bjaonline.com
  Creation Date........ 2002-10-24
  Registration Date.... 2002-10-24
  Expiry Date.......... 2007-10-24
  Organisation Name.... Ron Davis
  Organisation Address. Brisbane Jewellery Auctions Pty Ltd
  Organisation Address. PO Box 1063, Milton
  Organisation Address. Brisbane
  Organisation Address. 4064
  Organisation Address. Queensland
  Organisation Address. AUSTRALIA
Admin Name........... Trudy D'Silva
  Admin Address........ UQConnect
  Admin Address........ The university of Queensland
  Admin Address........ St Lucia
  Admin Address........ 4072
  Admin Address........ Queensland
  Admin Address........ AUSTRALIA
  Admin Email.......... trudy at its.uq.edu.au
  Admin Phone.......... +61-7-33657483
  Admin Fax............ +61-7-33469014

Tech Name............ Danny Thomas
  Tech Address......... Uni of Qld - UQConnect
  Tech Address......... Staff House Rd
  Tech Address......... St Lucia
  Tech Address......... 4072
  Tech Address......... QLD
  Tech Address......... AUSTRALIA
  Tech Email........... inet-serv at its.uq.edu.au
  Tech Phone........... +61.733656000
  Tech Fax.............
  Name Server.......... ns1.mitparked.com
  Name Server.......... ns2.mitparked.com


Yet this is what root is handing out:
a.gtld-servers.net [192.5.6.30] dna.melbourneit.com.au.
enterprise.melbourneit.com.au. ns1.melbourneit.com.au. ns1.mitparked.com.
ns1.uq.edu.au. ns2.melbourneit.com.au. ns2.mitparked.com. ns2.uq.edu.au.
ns3.uq.edu.au.

The mitparked.com servers are behaving like Mark says they should...the
other ones have different responses...uq.edu.au is refusing queries, the
other melbournce IT DNS servers are referring back to root.



On 1/29/07, Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:
>
>
> > We used to host the bjaonline.com domain, but it now seems parked by
> > MelbourneIT. At one point the delegation was changed to name-servers
> > apparently used for domain parking, but more recently there have been
> > other, non-authoritative, name-servers added.
> >
> > Anyway here's how the domain-parking name-servers respond
> >
> > root at cuscus4# dig @ns2.mitparked.com. bjaonline.com.
> >
> > ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @ns2.mitparked.com. bjaonline.com.
> > ; (1 server found)
> > ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> > ;; got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33506
> > ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
> > ;; QUERY SECTION:
> > ;;      bjaonline.com, type = A, class = IN
> >
> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > bjaonline.com.          30M IN A        203.27.227.91
> >
> > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > .                       30M IN NS       ns.
> >
> > ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> > ns.                     30M IN A        203.27.227.91
> >
> > ;; Total query time: 180 msec
> > ;; FROM: cuscus4.cc.uq.edu.au to SERVER: 203.27.227.68
> > ;; WHEN: Tue Jan 30 14:52:06 2007
> > ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 78
> >
> >
> > Are the authority and additional sections sensible ?
>
>         No.
>
>         Melbourne IT really should not be attempting to poison
>         peoples caches.  This is what happens when you don't setup
>         a nameserver correctly and attempt to serve everything out
>         of a root zone.
>
>         Melbourne IT should know better.
>
>         If they want to set up a named to act as a parking server
>         they should do something like this.
>
>         zone "parked1.com.au" { type master; file "parked"; };
>         zone "parked2.com.au" { type master; file "parked"; };
>
>         where parked is
>
>         @ 3600 SOA ns1.mitparked.com. hostmaster.mitparked.com. (
>                    1 3600 1200 604800 3600 )
>         @ 3600 NS ns1.mitparked.com.
>         @ 3600 NS ns2.mitparked.com.
>
>         You may also want to add SPF records to say that no email
>         will be sent etc.
>
> > Danny
> >
> > --
> >    d.thomas at its.uq.edu.au    Danny Thomas,
> >
> >           +61-7-3365-8221    Software Infrastructure,
> >  http://www.its.uq.edu.au    ITS, The University of Queensland
> >
> >
> --
> Mark Andrews, ISC
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews at isc.org
>
>
>