Moving DNS out of non-cooperative provider

[John Miller]

We've just resolved this amicably--I'd missed the
commercial.service at rcn.comaddress, but was contacted off-list by one
of RCN's engineers, who read
this thread and has removed our domain from their nameservers.  He was
quite helpful.  No cease-and-desist letter needed--not by a long shot!

John



On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:

>
> In message <4FDF631A.4060405 at brandeis.edu>, John Miller writes:
> > Hi Alexander,
> >
> > We've actually run into this before.  Once upon a time, RCN cable used
> > to run some slave servers for us, but we've long since moved away from
> > them, including zone transfers.  We yanked them from our registrar a
> > long time ago, and life was good.  For whatever reason, RCN's still
> > answering queries for brandeis.edu.
> >
> > As others have mentioned, change your DNS servers with your domain
> > registrar, and you'll be fine.
> >
> > John
>
> And if there is another zone with a CNAME to a brandeis.edu domain
> on those servers the clients will be getting old data.  As you have
> no control over creation of CNAMEs in other zones I would suggest
> that you send them a Cease and Decist notice if they are still doing
> it.
>
> Mark
> --
> Mark Andrews, ISC
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>



-- 
John Miller
Systems Engineer
Brandeis University
johnmill at brandeis.edu
(781) 736-4619
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