Dig shows wrong ip

[Danny Mayer]

Chris Thompson wrote:
> On Jul 28 2009, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
> 
>> % dig +short a dns3.potomacnetworks.com @a.gtld-servers.net
>> 216.250.243.230
>>
>> As long as that host record exists, with an IP different from what
>> your authoritative servers reply with, you are going to have problems,
>> because queries will be answered by the GTLD servers and not your own
>> authoritative servers.
> 
> This is the wretched "glue promoted to answer" bug (we can call it a
> bug by now, surely?) which we are assured that the GTLD servers will
> be cured of this year, next year, sometime, or ...
> 
> ... well, they will have to fix it before they can roll out DNSSEC,
> won't they?
> 

No. The op always needs to notify the Registrar of their domain when the
address of any of their nameservers changes. That has always been a
requirement.

Danny