On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:38 PM, ashwin kesavan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see a strange dns problem. When i do a dig <somesite.com> it resolves
> to a ip that i own. This ip is in USA and i am doing dig from chennai. My
> ISP and this USA hosting providers have no known relation.

Everything is resolved by  the NS records for your domain.
Have you *changed*  the NS records for your domain within the last
couple of days?   The NS changes take a few hours to propagate.

> Then how is
> the dns name is able to resolve to my hosted ip ?

What is the problem here?  Isn't this what you want it to be?

> Strange thing is online
> dns lookup tools don't resolve to this IP.
> Why does my dig is able to
> resolve while online tools aren't ?

The sites must be using an old cache. IMO you should pose the question to them.

> I dont have any hosts entry.

Great - many a times the problem is the hosts file.
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