Isn't this the same behavior you'll see if the domain is placed "on-hold" for non-payment? I've seen many domains that we service have this same problem, and inevitably it's becuase the domain owner never paid the NIC fees. It's my understanding that NetSol stopped publishing payment status information in the whois database, because domain resellers were registering domains on speculation, then re-registering them when they were deleted from the database. The "on-hold" flag in the database was being used by speculators to determine when to re-register the domains so that a legitimate domain seeker could not get them. Jay Stewart Vice President Olympia Networking Services - "The Northwest's Premier ISP" http://www.olywa.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Justin M. Wilson <justin@justin.net> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 8:49 AM Subject: Root Server Problems
Did they lose a little bit of their database over the weekend?
Exhibit 1 (Database Record Showing Existing Domain):
Domain Name: JSJ4.COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com Name Server: ORION.SRA.COM Name Server: PYXIS.SRA.COM
Exhibit 2 (Lookups Showing Working DNS On Both Nameservers):
server orion.sra.com Default Server: orion.sra.com Address: 151.200.85.103
www.jsj4.com Server: orion.sra.com Address: 151.200.85.103
Name: www.jsj4.com Address: 151.200.85.114
server pyxis.sra.com Default Server: pyxis.sra.com Address: 151.200.85.111
www.jsj4.com Server: pyxis.sra.com Address: 151.200.85.111
Name: www.jsj4.com Address: 151.200.85.114
Exhibit 3 (Response of Sample Root Server):
jsj4.com. Server: f.root-servers.net Address: 192.5.5.241
*** f.root-servers.net can't find jsj4.com.: Non-existent
host/domain
Exhibit 4 (Ordinary Response of Root Server, When Encountered With Working Domain):
cavtel.org. Server: f.root-servers.net Address: 192.5.5.241
Name: cavtel.org Served by: - DNS01.CAVTEL.NET 205.160.16.10 cavtel.org - DNS02.CAVTEL.NET 205.160.17.10 cavtel.org
---- Justin M. Wilson justin@justin.net justin@cavtel.net justin.wilson@vcu.edu