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Subject: WHOIS host records and ip addresses
From: matt-urrlRJtNKRMsHrnhXWJB8w at public.gmane.org (Matt Shields)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:02:10 -0400
In-reply-to: <AANLkTimAM4hdMNV-jhUfG1FLkVmZRXqb4jhO0GnRNG-e-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
References: <AANLkTimAM4hdMNV-jhUfG1FLkVmZRXqb4jhO0GnRNG-e@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:36 AM, John Abreau <jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I recently suffered a DNS outage where the primary DNS server was down
> for a weekend,
> and the WHOIS data apparently had the wrong ip addresses. The NS records in
> my
> DNS server were correct, but when it was down, the host records at
> WHOIS had ip addresses
> that didn't match what was in DNS, and our zone disappeared until I
> edited the WHOIS data.
>
> The "whois" command doesn't show the ip addresses like it used to; now
> all it shows are
> the domain names of the nameservers. And since they don't necessarily
> match what's
> in DNS, that's not acceptable.
>
> How can I do a WHOIS lookup that will show the ip addresses of the
> HOST records that
> Network Solutions maintains separate from DNS?
>
>
>
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Whois will show you what you registered for your nameservers, but not the
IPs your hosting provider registered for their domain.  Try dig with +trace
and +all

yukon1:~ mshields$ dig www.sysadminvalley.com +trace +all

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> www.sysadminvalley.com +trace +all
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59069
;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 13

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;.                IN    NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
.            19975    IN    NS    f.root-servers.net.
.            19975    IN    NS    j.root-servers.net.
.            19975    IN    NS    a.root-servers.net.
.            19975    IN    NS    g.root-servers.net.
.            19975    IN    NS    l.root-servers.net.
.            19975    IN    NS    m.root-servers.net.
.            19975    IN    NS    i.root-servers.net.
.            19975    IN    NS    b.root-servers.net.
.            19975    IN    NS    e.root-servers.net.
.            19975    IN    NS    h.root-servers.net.
.            19975    IN    NS    d.root-servers.net.
.            19975    IN    NS    c.root-servers.net.
.            19975    IN    NS    k.root-servers.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
f.root-servers.net.    86371    IN    A    192.5.5.241
j.root-servers.net.    86371    IN    A    192.58.128.30
a.root-servers.net.    86371    IN    A    198.41.0.4
g.root-servers.net.    86371    IN    A    192.112.36.4
l.root-servers.net.    86371    IN    A    199.7.83.42
m.root-servers.net.    86371    IN    A    202.12.27.33
i.root-servers.net.    86371    IN    A    192.36.148.17
b.root-servers.net.    86371    IN    A    192.228.79.201
e.root-servers.net.    86371    IN    A    192.203.230.10
h.root-servers.net.    86371    IN    A    128.63.2.53
d.root-servers.net.    86371    IN    A    128.8.10.90
c.root-servers.net.    86371    IN    A    192.33.4.12
k.root-servers.net.    86371    IN    A    193.0.14.129

;; Query time: 10 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.100.7#53(192.168.100.7)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 11:58:38 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 449

;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 37790
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 14

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.sysadminvalley.com.        IN    A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com.            172800    IN    NS    a.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    b.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    c.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    d.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    e.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    f.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    g.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    h.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    i.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    j.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    k.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    l.gtld-servers.net.
com.            172800    IN    NS    m.gtld-servers.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.5.6.30
b.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.33.14.30
c.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.26.92.30
d.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.31.80.30
e.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.12.94.30
f.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.35.51.30
g.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.42.93.30
h.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.54.112.30
i.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.43.172.30
j.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.48.79.30
k.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.52.178.30
l.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.41.162.30
m.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    A    192.55.83.30
a.gtld-servers.net.    172800    IN    AAAA    2001:503:a83e::2:30

;; Query time: 51 msec
;; SERVER: 193.0.14.129#53(k.root-servers.net)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 11:58:39 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 503

;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1194
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.sysadminvalley.com.        IN    A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
sysadminvalley.com.    172800    IN    NS    ns1.beantownhost.com.
sysadminvalley.com.    172800    IN    NS    ns2.beantownhost.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.beantownhost.com.    172800    IN    A    209.160.26.114
ns2.beantownhost.com.    172800    IN    A    209.160.26.176

;; Query time: 27 msec
;; SERVER: 192.41.162.30#53(l.gtld-servers.net)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 11:58:40 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 121

;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56299
;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.sysadminvalley.com.        IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.sysadminvalley.com.    300    IN    CNAME    sysadminvalley.com.
sysadminvalley.com.    300    IN    A    209.160.37.69

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
sysadminvalley.com.    86400    IN    NS    ns1.beantownhost.com.
sysadminvalley.com.    86400    IN    NS    ns2.beantownhost.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.beantownhost.com.    14400    IN    A    209.160.26.114
ns2.beantownhost.com.    14400    IN    A    209.160.26.176

;; Query time: 88 msec
;; SERVER: 209.160.26.114#53(ns1.beantownhost.com)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 11:58:40 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 151


-matt

References:
- WHOIS host records and ip addresses
  - From: jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (John Abreau)

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