Re: [cobalt-users] OT (somewhat) - NS IP Updates w/ NetSol

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kingsly John wrote:

> If the domains were registered with NSI ... then the Root Servers will
> have the same information as is found in the NSI Registry ... so you can't
> sleep all that well!!

Actually not true...

The root-servers know the right IP#s based on the domain of the
name-server.  They don't care about anything in the whois.

The problem is that we think of the whois as a look into the database;
it's not.  It's a look into the registrar's own database.

If the registrar uses a flat-file database, then the IP# doesn't change
until someone changes it; if the registrar uses a relational database
with a foreign key (a relationship between the whois database and the
root registries, based on the name-server's name field), then the
registrar's database will show the updated information automatically.

We had the same problem, except it was our primary nameserver that ended
up wrong, and the registrar not doing the updating was Domain Bank. 
However the domains still worked fine.  And Domain Bank (perhaps unlike
NetSol) did fix their database when we emailed them the request.

Jeff
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