You may wish to read up on domain names and DNS, you can probably google something up or heres the RFCs http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt Your questions are off the mark somewhat, you must whois the domain to check you have the correct DNS servers the query (dig) the domain on that DNS to check its resolving what you want it to. On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Jim Popovitch wrote:
I have a question about the way DNS records are announced/handled. Thank you in advance for any insight into this, and I hope this isn't too far off topic for discussion here.
Background: - I have a domain whose MX and DNS is handled by registrar ABC and I am moving that domain to registrar XYZ.
- I have verified (via dig) the proper config on the new registrar.
You are mixing the registrar and DNS functions, you need whois to determine the registrar's settings
Questions: 1) How does one registrar 'win out' over a second registrar when updating root servers?
Its a hierarchy, the root/gtld will have a set of authoratitive DNS servers for the domain, theres no propogation etc. So the answer is the DNS go to whatever the registrar has set the DNS servers to be
2) How can I verify that the domain will be properly 'announced' to the root servers by the new registrar?
whois Steve
-Jim P.