On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Geo. wrote:
Can someone verify something for me?
Do an NSLOOKUP for www.stemtostern.com and stemtostern.com against the i.gtld-servers.net
why would the www one resolve?
If an A (or AAAA) record appears in the com or net zones, it's because it is referenced at least one NS record also in the com and net zones, i.e., it appears on the right side of an NS record. This is the case with www.stemtostern.com. While it is not a name server for stemtostern.com, it is a name server for harbormarinetowing.com; please see the dig output below. Matt -- Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com> VeriSign Global Registry Services ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> +norec @a.gtld-servers.net ns harbormarinetowing.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41821 ;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;harbormarinetowing.com. IN NS ;; ANSWER SECTION: harbormarinetowing.com. 172800 IN NS ns.nls.net. harbormarinetowing.com. 172800 IN NS www.stemtostern.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns.nls.net. 172800 IN A 216.144.8.10 www.stemtostern.com. 172800 IN A 216.144.36.50 ;; Query time: 24 msec ;; SERVER: 192.5.6.30#53(a.gtld-servers.net) ;; WHEN: Thu Feb 27 15:32:09 2003 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 126