On Monday 17 February 2003 18:11, Paul Makepeace wrote: > It seems that looking up the address (`host srl.org`) returns the A > record without consulting the nameservers, presumably since it's > registered with an A record by dint of being a whois-known nameserver. I > didn't realise the gTLD servers did that. What a pain in the arse. > > penderel:~$ ns srl.org | perl -ne '/\S+$/ && print `host srl.org $&`' > srl.org A 208.44.199.253 > srl.org A 208.44.199.253 > srl.org A 208.44.199.253 > penderel:~$ host srl.org > srl.org A 64.81.251.171 > penderel:~$
right ... what you have here is an unwanted glue record: in the dig stuff below you will see the line: srl.org. 172800 IN A 64.81.251.171 that is coming directly from the .org root server. the query is never referred to your nameservers as the .org root server is able to give an authoratative answer ... and helpfully it is 4 days TTL .. so at best it will be friday before it gets sorted :) AFAIK the only way to get rid of these is to make a request to the registrar to do it manually, as it is rarely possible using the sh1tty web forms. (ask a certain dave hodg about the fun we had with a glue record for www.blah) ########################################################## [robin@workstation robin]$ dig @E5.NSTLD.COM srl.org a +norecurse ; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> @E5.NSTLD.COM srl.org a ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39381 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;srl.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: srl.org. 172800 IN A 64.81.251.171 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: srl.org. 86400 IN NS ns3.realprogrammers.com. srl.org. 86400 IN NS ns2.realprogrammers.com. srl.org. 86400 IN NS ns1.realprogrammers.com. ############################################################# -- Robin Szemeti
