On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 03:59:56PM -0800, Carter, Gregory wrote:
In your situation, you should be able to delete the nameserver host if it's not being relied upon by other domain names. They don't remove it automatically because they probably don't have any auditing tools coded to check on a regular basis whether or not a nameserver host is needed. They've always sent through the host records up to the root servers when you create them whether they are in use by a domain or not. Perhaps they should give OpenXRS a try.
I just found out (with help from other list subscribers) and indeed the netsol host record is not being fed to the root servers anymore (since no domain they own relies on it anymore), and that the bad host record had been automatically moved to opensrs along with the svcs domains I moved. While I did delete the www.svlug.org NS record from the two domains as soon as they were moved, it was still left in opensrs's database as a host record that I might want to use later. William X. Walsh pointed me to the "If you want to create or modify a nameserver which is based on svlug.org click here" link at the bottom of the manage name server page. Sure enough, the bad record was there, and I was able to get rid of it with one mouseclick Without William, I'd never have realized that the host record had been moved to opensrs: magic(@va):~/Mail$ whois "host www.svlug.org" -h whois.opensrs.net No match for HOST WWW.SVLUG.ORG magic(@va):~/Mail$ whois "host 209.81.8.243" -h whois.opensrs.net No match for HOST 209.81.8.243 I should have done this instead: magic(@va):~/Mail$ whois www.svlug.org -h whois.internic.net (...) Server Name: WWW.SVLUG.ORG IP Address: 209.81.8.243 Registrar: TUCOWS.COM, INC. Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net Referral URL: www.opensrs.org It's not very obvious, but oh well :-) (Actually William just told me opensrs is in the process of fixing this) Thanks to those who mailed me privately to offer several tips and help: - Kevin Loch - Scott Francis - Troy Davis - William X. Walsh - Jeff BTW, Troy Davis showed me that you can find out who's using your name server, but apprently netsol folks don't seem to know about this :-) magic(@va):~/Mail$ whois "server NS97718-HST" -h whois.networksolutions.com (...) Andover.net (FRESHMEAT-DOM) FRESHMEAT.NET Patrick Lenz (UNKAPUTTBAR-DOM) UNKAPUTTBAR.ORG Patrick Lenz (POOCS-DOM) POOCS.NET The good news is that my problem is now fixed without depending on netsol at all. Too bad I didn't know this before spending all the time on the phone with them :-) Thanks to all those who replied Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger marc_f@merlins.org for PGP key