On 07.02.09 20:58, Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote:
A business customer of ours could not change their DNS entry at Register.com
from ns1.mtcnet.net/ns1.netins.net.
After 10 failed attempts thru register.com to register domain
to ns1.mtcnet.net and ns1.netins.net, I contacted
Please forgive me for my naivety, but since when did a host name have a
WHOIS record?
I just went to Verisign's WHOIS website
(http://registrar.verisign-grs.com/whois/), and I see they have an option to
query for NS records. Interesting, never saw that before in a WHOIS site
lookup.
Frank
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:32:03AM -0600,
Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com wrote
a message of 54 lines which said:
Please forgive me for my naivety, but since when did a host name
have a WHOIS record?
In the registry of .net/.com, many, many years.
% whois -h whois.verisign-grs.com
Well, offhand, I'd say it's an MD5 sum of a package named bind9-
default. I don't have that file on my Ubuntu systems.
Presumably, Debian's BIND 9.5.0-P2 package (which is a Debian-specific
package, not directly corresponding to any ISC release) has been
updated to version 5.1. Thus, an MD5
Some time ago, we at ISC removed libbind from the BIND 9 distribution,
and planned to make it available instead as a separate product. A
number of people have asked on the mailing lists when that product
would be available. The answer is a few weeks ago--but we forgot
to formally announce it on
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