[56718] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Getting a Host Record
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william@elan.net)
Wed Mar 12 20:44:51 2003
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:53:39 -0800 (PST)
From: william@elan.net
To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030313012515.GA17898@blossom.cjclark.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Which domain/host do you need record for? I can try to find info through
some backdoors but even that may not work any more...
And do note that system with dns hosts & ips has changed as of year ago,
ips are no longer needed for registered hosts (unless the domain is also
the same the nameservers listed for it), dns servers must lookup proper
ip of nameserver by resolving host names. And if change is needed for ip
(when for host in the same domain), it is done through interface provided
by the registrar that is related to that domain. As such almost all
registrars no longer associate contacts with hosts but only associate
hosts with their proper domains and often do not even list ip there.
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Crist J. Clark wrote:
>
> I'm feeling really dumb asking this, but how does one get host info
> out of Network Solutions WHOIS these days?
>
> I want to look up the contact info on a host. I can get the IP from
> the hostname and vice-versa along with the registrar, but I can't
> figure out how to get the full record. "Nameserver" queries don't seem
> to work on whois.networksolutions.com anymore, and the records for
> zones that I know use the server no longer include the NIC handle for
> the nameservers.
>
> How do I get the record? Or get the NIC handle to get the record
> through WHOIS? (And I though netsol _used to_ suck. Thank goodness
> ICANN is saving us all.)
