WHOIS host records and ip addresses
Matt Shields
matt-urrlRJtNKRMsHrnhXWJB8w at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 13 07:32:38 EDT 2010
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:35 PM, John Abreau <jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Thanks, but that's showing me DNS data, not WHOIS data.
> The problem was, I had NS records in DNS of the form
>
Looks like my second response yesterday bounced because it was too large.
The IP you had was from your DNS server, but the IP that your Registrar
(GoDaddy, Register.com, etc) lists with the Registry (Verisign for com/net,
Public Internet Registry for org, etc) which get's published to the root
zone files isn't controlled by your DNS server. You have to manually update
it with your Registrar. Some registrar's publish not only your whois and
nameserver information in DNS but they used to publish your registered
nameserver IPs. A lot of them have stopped doing this. That said, I forgot
to add +recurse to my dig
See section below where it say <start here> and <end here>, this is querying
the root servers (h.gtld-servers.net in this case) and it shows that I've
told sysadminvalley.com to use ns1.beantownhost.com and ns2.beantownhost.com.
In the additional section, it shows that I've registered an IP for each of
the ns servers. The next paragraph after <end here> shows my client then
using that to query my nameservers.
yukon1:~ mshields$ dig www.sysadminvalley.com +trace +recurse +all
; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> www.sysadminvalley.com +trace +recurse +all
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18866
;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 13
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
. 13352 IN NS l.root-servers.net.
. 13352 IN NS m.root-servers.net.
. 13352 IN NS i.root-servers.net.
. 13352 IN NS b.root-servers.net.
. 13352 IN NS e.root-servers.net.
. 13352 IN NS h.root-servers.net.
. 13352 IN NS d.root-servers.net.
. 13352 IN NS c.root-servers.net.
. 13352 IN NS k.root-servers.net.
. 13352 IN NS f.root-servers.net.
. 13352 IN NS j.root-servers.net.
. 13352 IN NS a.root-servers.net.
. 13352 IN NS g.root-servers.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
l.root-servers.net. 86056 IN A 199.7.83.42
m.root-servers.net. 79748 IN A 202.12.27.33
i.root-servers.net. 86276 IN A 192.36.148.17
b.root-servers.net. 86276 IN A 192.228.79.201
e.root-servers.net. 86276 IN A 192.203.230.10
h.root-servers.net. 86276 IN A 128.63.2.53
d.root-servers.net. 86276 IN A 128.8.10.90
c.root-servers.net. 86276 IN A 192.33.4.12
k.root-servers.net. 86056 IN A 193.0.14.129
f.root-servers.net. 86276 IN A 192.5.5.241
j.root-servers.net. 86056 IN A 192.58.128.30
a.root-servers.net. 86276 IN A 198.41.0.4
g.root-servers.net. 86276 IN A 192.112.36.4
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.100.7#53(192.168.100.7)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 13:49:01 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 449
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 17309
;; 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 f.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS e.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS d.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS g.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS i.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS b.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS m.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS k.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS l.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS h.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS c.gtld-servers.net.
com. 172800 IN NS j.gtld-servers.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.5.6.30
a.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2001:503:a83e::2:30
b.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.33.14.30
b.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2001:503:231d::2:30
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
;; Query time: 27 msec
;; SERVER: 192.33.4.12#53(c.root-servers.net)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 13:49:02 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 512
<start here>
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23962
;; 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: 104 msec
;; SERVER: 192.54.112.30#53(h.gtld-servers.net)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 13:49:02 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 121
<end here>
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28321
;; 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: 92 msec
;; SERVER: 209.160.26.176#53(ns2.beantownhost.com)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 13:49:02 2010
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;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 151
-matt
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