Joe, Not to answer all of your email today, but.... Joe Abley wrote:
Has anybody else seen instances in the new register where a domain has ns_name_* records, but no corresponding ns_ip_* records?
For example, patho.gen.nz has:
ns_name_1: dns1.clear.net.nz ns_ip_1: 203.97.33.1 ns_name_2: soa2.qsi.net.nz ns_ip_2: ns_name_3: tardis.patho.gen.nz ns_ip_3: 203.97.2.226 ns_name_4: medusa.blackops.org ns_ip_4:
This makes me slightly nervous. Has anybody else seen this kind of thing for other domains?
The ns_ip_* fields were optional in the old system, and were only used where the nameserver was within the zone being specified (ie only used to produce glue records where necessary). Therefore, the only nameserver in the above list that NEEDS to have the IP number specified (the rest are ignored), is 'tardis.patho.gen.nz'.
Are the current zone files running at ns99.waikato.ac.nz built from this new data, or are the old zone files still running? If the former, when will the first authoritative zone from the new system be loaded? (it looks like it will be worth checking).
ns99 is still running on the zone files generated here at Waikato on Friday last week. I believe we are looking at doing a zone-build on the new system later today, and possibly making ns99 a slave to the new system once the relevant checks of those zonefiles have been made.
The fact that the hosts soa2.qsi.net.nz and medusa.blackops.org are quite possibly unknown to Domainz makes me suspect a systematic problem of some kind, and not a random one.
I don't think the above is a problem at all. 'qsi.net.nz' should have an IP number for 'soa2.qsi.net.nz' in its nameserver declaration (if it uses that nameserver for it's own zone), and medusa.blackops.org isn't part of the '.nz' registry, so you just hope that the appropriate glue records are being used if they are necessary for the 'blackops.org' domain.
$ host -t ns qsi.net.nz qsi.net.nz name server soa2.qsi.net.nz qsi.net.nz name server ns1.2day.com qsi.net.nz name server soa1.qsi.net.nz
$ host -t ns blackops.org blackops.org name server NS2.INTRA-CONNECT.NET blackops.org name server WARLOCK.blackops.org blackops.org name server medusa.blackops.org
So, both of those domains need the appropriate glue records generated so
that anyone looking for your nameservers can find them.
But that's not something that is required to be in your domain's
application in the '.nz' register.
Hmmm, I think I'm digging a 'techno-hole'. Perhaps I'll leave it at
that, and anyone that understands and feels they need to clarify can.....
Geoff.
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Geoff Thompson