[59439] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS announcement question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Dills)
Sat Jun 28 13:10:56 2003
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 13:10:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306281731580.20827-100000@MrServer>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> > 2) How can I verify that the domain will be properly 'announced'
> > to the root servers by the new registrar?
>
> whois
Well, kinda sorta. By far, most of the time whois is correct.
However, this is gauranteed to tell you the actual situation:
dig -t ns <domain> @a.gtld-servers.net
Andy
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