WHOIS host records and ip addresses

[abreauj-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (John Abreau)]

Ok, I see that you're querying a root name server, and it shows your bean town nameservers, but it's still not clear to me how to know that those are coming from the WHOIS glue records and not from your name servers.

  

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On Aug 13, 2010, at 7:32 AM, Matt Shields <matt-urrlRJtNKRMsHrnhXWJB8w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:35 PM, John Abreau <jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, but that's showing me DNS data, not WHOIS data.
>> The problem was, I had NS records in DNS of the form
>> 
> 

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> 
> See section below where it say <start here> and <end here>, this is querying
> the root servers (h.gtld-servers.net in this case) and it shows that I've
> told sysadminvalley.com to use ns1.beantownhost.com and ns2.beantownhost.com.
> In the additional section, it shows that I've registered an IP for each of
> the ns servers.  The next paragraph after <end here> shows my client then
> using that to query my nameservers.



> .            13352    IN    NS    c.root-servers.net.



> <start here>
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23962
> 
> ;; 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: 104 msec
> ;; SERVER: 192.54.112.30#53(h.gtld-servers.net)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Aug 12 13:49:02 2010
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 121
> <end here>