On Monday 17 February 2003 18:11, Paul Makepeace wrote: > A friend of mine has srl.org which is listed in whois as a nameserver
and to correct a common misconception .. the nameservers are not listed in the whois record .. well .. they are listed in whois record, but thats a human readable thing not really involved in DNS per-se ... its the host record / zone file of the .org root servers that does the business .. they are derived from the whois record .. BUT ( and I believe this is vaguely important) the contents of the whois record are not used by the DNS system in anyway .. its the host record/zonefile that counts. for instance .. if you upload changes to the .uk root servers, you will notice the whois record on whois.nic.uk chnages immediately ... however the host records are only updated at ~4am, until that point the two records are differetn ... but when the root servers are updated thats when the changes start to occur in the DNS sytem, not before. -- Robin Szemeti
