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@vt.edu wrote:
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 17:11:00 PDT, Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com> said:
[rjoffe@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@layer9 rjoffe]$ dig @udns1.ultradns.net www.tombannenchev.com
Which finally resolves it...