Joe Abley wrote:-
More than likely. Moving back to the case in hand, however, if you're going to notify nameserver operators when the nameservers start or stop being supposedly authoritative for a zone, you might as well do all of them. Why just notify the operator of the (arbitarily-designated) master nameserver?
Domainz does not know which (if any) of the name servers submitted to the registry is a master for the domain name concerned. Nor do they need to know in order to delegate, so its irrelevant. They do need to discover the soa for the name server configured as master (or primary master if there is more than one master), so they can notify the admin of the change. The soa admin will then notify any other admins providing slave name service if outside their own network. A query with type = soa on the domain in question using any of the specified name servers will return the name server configured as primary master for the domain. A second lookup to obtain the soa email address of the zone the name server (referred to in the first query) is within will get you to the correct person. Make any other assumption and you may not be notifying the correct person. Would somebody like to clear up who to notify when the primary master buffoon becomes a slave to master buffonery? :-) Regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2day.com -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog