On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Bill LeBlanc wrote: > I wonder how obligated an ISP is to stick to the DNS addresses listed with > Internic? Internic (www.internic.net) has a form to report problems with > its listing. All you have to do is enter your name and email address and > the URL of the provider whose listing has problems. Would it do any good > to report the problems?
Internic only lists the nameservers that are authoritative for your domains. So you'd better stick with the addresses you have listed, otherwise your domains (cox.net, cox.com) will stop working for the rest of the world. This is different than the resolving DNS servers that clients on your network may use. Although it's common to have your authoritative and resolving DNS servers be the same, it's not the best security practice. Cox is free to change their resolving DNS servers at will, though it's likely to cause problems for clients. They won't change their authoritative DNS servers without contacting Internic though. When i was on Charter, their DNS sucked really bad also. So setup my own resolving (caching) DNS server... it's a little slow initially, but once it caches all the sites you frequent, it'll be pretty darn speedy. It's not too hard to setup with BIND. ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
