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//Hi, William! william(at)elan.net wrote on Aug 16 : ------------------------------------------------------------------------<digs showing correct results from my server and the wrong results from a gTLD server snipped> Yup, just as I kept saying to GoDaddy: The glue in the parent servers is wrong. Right, but the registrar wasn't being cooperative. I've changed glue records with other registrars before (self-service - just fill in the IP next to the name). I even remember emailing changes to NSI, back when that was the procedure), but changing one with GoDaddy has proven, erm, difficult.So the answer is that you need to make sure your own dns server "A" record for "ns.nextbus.com" matches glue record entered with registrar. As far as what is going to be used by global dns, it would be glue record that you set with registrar (ok - its supposed to, but its not always true depending how caching dns server is written). BTW - when doing check make certain to use "+norecurse" Ok... I'd be surprised if a gTLD server did a recursive query if asked. Ok, third time is a charm, I hope. You'd think even the level 1 folks would be trained to use dnsreport.com or something like it. (Boy, thanks to the folks providing it!) Note that I did specifically ask: "Please have this issue reviewed by someone technical - someone who knows what DNS glue is" and even included links to a definition, dnsreport.com,... Yup. I did get a good laugh out of the comment. ======= Boy, the results, which Jim posted, of "host 64.164.28.194" sure are odd, though I get the same thing. (That IP is in space no longer ours.) 194.192.28.164.64.in-addr.arpa??? That's got 5 octets, not 4. Not that I care what SBC does with rDNS for our old IP space... But in general, I believe there's no need for a NS to have valid reverse DNS. (But it's still a good idea, and is usually needed for mail servers...) There's nothing keeping someone from setting up reverse DNS for any IP delegated to them to be, say www.whitehouse.gov... |