-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > 1) whois is not used by DNS in any manner, what so ever. It's used by > humans, as a database maintained by the registrars, of contact > information for a given domain. If I want to look up the name servers > for a domain, I should use host or dig (no, you really shouldn't use > nslookup, but it would work :) ). If I want to look up who to contact > about that domain, I should use whois. Well, I'd probably trust the > email contact listed in the SOA more, but if I needed more traditional > contact methods, ala name, phone, address, whois provides that. How > would I use host or dig to find out what the delegating entity believes > my name servers are, ie. instead of the whois command Jon suggested: > `whois trilug.org`? > Jon mentioned 'host -t ns <domain>'.. 'dig ns <domain>' works as well
> 2) Neither Tanner nor Jon touched on who you actually need to contact to > update the information in the "whois" record. There's a good buzzword > name for that company or entity, which I'm sure they both know, but > neglected to mention directly. registrar? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEcc82wsRpgTiXSOERAgoDAJ0b+ZLGU1T+k6MOlphzfwP71FOIbACfdDBg WIyvROtSYmGUHnZXdEOYesw= =XHAq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
