[59440] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS announcement question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Sat Jun 28 13:16:16 2003
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 18:15:17 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
Cc: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0306281308020.78038-100000@thunder.xecu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Andy Dills wrote:
> 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
Granted :) I read the question in future tense, Ie I have requested this change,
I dont see it yet, can I check they have altered the domain DNS servers hence
you'd need whois
