Root DNS Server Issues?

Wed Oct 2 03:12:14 UTC 2002

add  www.  to the zone and look for a A RR.
then look up the A RR on one of ultra's servers

Rodney's point is that the gTLD servers have bad glue data and its a
PIA to get that data changed.

Some folks also place www.example.com  as a NS so that it will be glue and
thus provide faster look up times for all those wonderful metric programs
that say how wonderful you are.

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:41:09PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 17:11:00 PDT, Rodney Joffe <rjoffe at centergate.com>  said:
> 
> > [rjoffe at layer9 rjoffe]$ dig @a.gtld-servers.net www.tombannenchev.com
> 
> Well... a.gtld-servers.net isn't a root server (got bit by that myself a
> while ago ;) and even then...
> 
> > tombannenchev.com.      172800  IN      NS      UDNS1.ULTRADNS.NET.
> > tombannenchev.com.      172800  IN      NS      UDNS2.ULTRADNS.NET.
> 
> It doesn't resolve it, it just gives you 2 NS records..
> 
> > [rjoffe at layer9 rjoffe]$ dig @udns1.ultradns.net www.tombannenchev.com
> 
> Which finally resolves it...