Re: gtld-servers returning multiple A records for a NS?

2002-04-04 Thread william
Its been like that for years, just very rare cases. Worth is that about 4-6 months ago I started seeing multiple dns servers registered for the same ip address. Plus to that neither .biz nor .info dns servers are even showing on the internic root. System is totally broken, I'll try to raise

Re: How to get better security people

2002-04-04 Thread Avleen Vig
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: As for your service listing them... Smurfs aren't spam, so I'm not sure what you plan to accomplish by making the data available via DNS, it would really only be useful as a BGP feed. Even then, it's usefulness is limited. I suppose you could

Re: gtld-servers returning multiple A records for a NS?

2002-04-04 Thread bmanning
long before there were specific gtld-servers. I first saw this type of response in 1987. (I was not looking before then... :) When did this start? dig uunet.com @a.gtld-servers.net ; DiG 8.3 uunet.com @a.gtld-servers.net ; (1 server found) ;; res

Re[2]: gtld-servers returning multiple A records for a NS?

2002-04-04 Thread Allan Liska
Hello, Thursday, April 04, 2002, 3:26:18 AM, you wrote: wen Worth is that about 4-6 months ago I started seeing multiple dns servers wen registered for the same ip address. Plus to that neither .biz nor .info wen dns servers are even showing on the internic root. Yea, apparently in January

Re[2]: gtld-servers returning multiple A records for a NS?

2002-04-04 Thread Paul Thornton
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Allan Liska wrote: Yea, apparently in January Verisign changed their long standing policy of allowing only one name server to be registered per IP Address. To confuse matters even more, I don't think all of the registrars support this, and I have not seen anything

Re[2]: gtld-servers returning multiple A records for a NS?

2002-04-04 Thread william
That is exactly the situation of original question - having two ips for same dns server. It is not possible to register new dns server this way but long time ago when internic dns/whois system was originally introduced (pre 1990 to around 1994) it was possible and some companies did that,

Re[2]: gtld-servers returning multiple A records for a NS?

2002-04-04 Thread william
Somewhat on the topic but going into future instead of the past... I'm wondering if anyone started working on dns host registration system for ipv6 and whois support for this. It seems that currently all ipv6 dns comes from existing domains that are setup with ipv4 and there is no root ipv6

Re: Re[2]: gtld-servers returning multiple A records for a NS?

2002-04-04 Thread bmanning
yes, I'll get it updated. it might be worthwhile noting that there is ipv6 support in rwhois. I know several registries have been working on this topic for a while and folks ought to see the results of these efforts in the next few months. it is also true that the v6 root testbed has been

RE: Qwest Transit

2002-04-04 Thread Daniel Golding
Hmm. There is alot of speculation that their network is largely subsidized by their Yellow Pages franchise. Let your fingers do the walking, et al. - Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shawn Solomon Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 7:24

Re: Re[2]: gtld-servers returning multiple A records for a NS?

2002-04-04 Thread Matt Larson
Matt Levine wrote: When did this start? Associating multiple IP addresses with a single name server (i.e., multiple A records with the same owner) in the com, net and org zones has always been possible with the NSI Registry/VeriSign Global Registry Services. This behavior is documented in the

Re: Re[2]: gtld-servers returning multiple A records for a NS?

2002-04-04 Thread Jim Hickstein
An immediate positive benefit is that it's no longer possible for someone to hold a given IP address hostage by registering a name server at that address. (Anyone can register a com/net/org name server at any IP address.) I've been waiting for this fix, but OpenSRS (via domainmonger.com)

Exodus Contact

2002-04-04 Thread Gyorfy, Shawn
Please can someone that deals with routing issues at Exodus.net contact me off the list, or if anyone knows of a good contact at Exodus.net please contact me off the list. Thanks in advance. Shawn.