On May 14, 2014, at 3:22 AM, Jim Reid <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 May 2014, at 22:51, Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "Check every name using your nameservers at the parent side for glue before >> renumbering". > > If only it was that simple Andrew. :-) > > A delegation in TLD1 might point at a name in TLD2. So when the reference > count for ns.foo.tld2 drops to zero, the registry deletes it from the DNS > even though there's an NS record with RDATA for ns.foo.tld2 in TLD1. > > ISTR this caused some pain when org was separated from the Verisign registry. > I think at that time nameserver objects in the SRS were "shared" across all > three TLDs.
I recall a great deal of pain when renumbering a nameserver and folks would keep re-registering it, or a name on that IP address that I was trying to move them all away from back in 96-97 timeframe. Now we have something that's perhaps 'equally' bad which is there are many names in the TLDs that point to the same IP address, eg: Aborting search 50 records found ..... NS7.HANGGORO.COM TITAN.LOSTSERVER.NET NS2.ATOPIA.NET C.NS.OTAHUNA.NET NS2.GREYBEAM.NET NS3.AGYEI.NET NS3.CRYSTALONE.NET C.NS.THORIUMINVESTMENTS.COM C.NS.OSMIUMGLOBAL.COM NS2.KARDINGS.COM NS2.PATEDMA.COM NS3.HIJINKS.COM C.NS.MAILFORWARDED.COM NS2.ETEAMBUILD.COM NS4.SIDEBARDISABLER.NET NS1.PRIORITYLANE.COM DNS2.GRANABIKE.COM NS3.MICRODUAL.COM NS2.TETRO.NET NS3.BACASOFT.COM NS2.XENONCORE.NET NS2.DGSI.COM NSFICKDICH.CSE-SERVER.COM NS7.DNS-DIENST.NET NS2.PCH.NET NS2.QLOGICS.COM NS2.KEITHLAMCPA.COM C.NS.OSMIUM-INVESTMENTS.COM NS2.POPUTKA.COM NS3.QLOGICS.COM NS2.FETTLE.NET NS2.PEDANT.NET NS2.MOTORTRAK.COM NS2.CMUNGERJR.COM NS2.MISSALAINEOUS.COM B.NS.QMUTE.COM B.NS.SUREJOURNEY.COM B.NS.QONTIX.COM NS2.BITLANCER.NET NS2.LYONOPENLAB.NET NS3.SIDOPORT.COM NS02.SPYRO.NET NS3.MZANSIDNS.NET NS4.VITTGAM.NET NS4.CAIZHENGZHU.COM NS3.IDOPORT.COM B.NS.CATAAFFE.COM NS2.PRIMADESIGN.COM NS2.SPRIXA.COM NS6.OFLOO.NET I'm sure there are more as well.. the worst part is some have AAAA and some have both AAAA and A.. - Jared _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
