WHOIS host records and ip addresses
Matt Shields
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Thu Aug 12 12:02:10 EDT 2010
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:36 AM, John Abreau <jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I recently suffered a DNS outage where the primary DNS server was down
> for a weekend,
> and the WHOIS data apparently had the wrong ip addresses. The NS records in
> my
> DNS server were correct, but when it was down, the host records at
> WHOIS had ip addresses
> that didn't match what was in DNS, and our zone disappeared until I
> edited the WHOIS data.
>
> The "whois" command doesn't show the ip addresses like it used to; now
> all it shows are
> the domain names of the nameservers. And since they don't necessarily
> match what's
> in DNS, that's not acceptable.
>
> How can I do a WHOIS lookup that will show the ip addresses of the
> HOST records that
> Network Solutions maintains separate from DNS?
>
>
>
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Whois will show you what you registered for your nameservers, but not the
IPs your hosting provider registered for their domain. Try dig with +trace
and +all
yukon1:~ mshields$ dig www.sysadminvalley.com +trace +all
; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> www.sysadminvalley.com +trace +all
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59069
;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 13
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
. 19975 IN NS f.root-servers.net.
. 19975 IN NS j.root-servers.net.
. 19975 IN NS a.root-servers.net.
. 19975 IN NS g.root-servers.net.
. 19975 IN NS l.root-servers.net.
. 19975 IN NS m.root-servers.net.
. 19975 IN NS i.root-servers.net.
. 19975 IN NS b.root-servers.net.
. 19975 IN NS e.root-servers.net.
. 19975 IN NS h.root-servers.net.
. 19975 IN NS d.root-servers.net.
. 19975 IN NS c.root-servers.net.
. 19975 IN NS k.root-servers.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
f.root-servers.net. 86371 IN A 192.5.5.241
j.root-servers.net. 86371 IN A 192.58.128.30
a.root-servers.net. 86371 IN A 198.41.0.4
g.root-servers.net. 86371 IN A 192.112.36.4
l.root-servers.net. 86371 IN A 199.7.83.42
m.root-servers.net. 86371 IN A 202.12.27.33
i.root-servers.net. 86371 IN A 192.36.148.17
b.root-servers.net. 86371 IN A 192.228.79.201
e.root-servers.net. 86371 IN A 192.203.230.10
h.root-servers.net. 86371 IN A 128.63.2.53
d.root-servers.net. 86371 IN A 128.8.10.90
c.root-servers.net. 86371 IN A 192.33.4.12
k.root-servers.net. 86371 IN A 193.0.14.129
;; Query time: 10 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.100.7#53(192.168.100.7)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 11:58:38 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 449
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 37790
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 14
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.sysadminvalley.com. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com. 172800 IN NS a.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS b.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS c.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS d.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS e.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS f.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS g.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS h.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS i.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS j.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS k.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS l.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS m.gtld-servers.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.5.6.30
b.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.33.14.30
c.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.26.92.30
d.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.31.80.30
e.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.12.94.30
f.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.35.51.30
g.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.42.93.30
h.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.54.112.30
i.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.43.172.30
j.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.48.79.30
k.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.52.178.30
l.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.41.162.30
m.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.55.83.30
a.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2001:503:a83e::2:30
;; Query time: 51 msec
;; SERVER: 193.0.14.129#53(k.root-servers.net)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 11:58:39 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 503
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1194
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.sysadminvalley.com. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
sysadminvalley.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.beantownhost.com.
sysadminvalley.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.beantownhost.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.beantownhost.com. 172800 IN A 209.160.26.114
ns2.beantownhost.com. 172800 IN A 209.160.26.176
;; Query time: 27 msec
;; SERVER: 192.41.162.30#53(l.gtld-servers.net)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 11:58:40 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 121
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56299
;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.sysadminvalley.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.sysadminvalley.com. 300 IN CNAME sysadminvalley.com.
sysadminvalley.com. 300 IN A 209.160.37.69
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
sysadminvalley.com. 86400 IN NS ns1.beantownhost.com.
sysadminvalley.com. 86400 IN NS ns2.beantownhost.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.beantownhost.com. 14400 IN A 209.160.26.114
ns2.beantownhost.com. 14400 IN A 209.160.26.176
;; Query time: 88 msec
;; SERVER: 209.160.26.114#53(ns1.beantownhost.com)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 11:58:40 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 151
-matt
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