Search Again: Re: updating name servers at registrar From: After Hours Date: Monday, April 19, 2004 Time: 2:09:54 pm On Apr 19, 2004, at 4:00 PM, QuickDNS Talk wrote: >> After an IP change, DNS Expert reports that none of my name servers >> respond, but when I query them directly using dig, I get current DNS >> data. DNS Expert reports this for most of my domains. >> >> I even tried >> <http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=mdcclxxvi.com> >> >> and it tells me the same thing: none of my name servers responds. I >> suspect a firewall problem at my ISP. > > > Boy, is my face red. > > Because my registrar does not ask for name server IP addresses, only > the hostnames, I assumed, incorrectly, that I did not need to update > anything at the registrar. I just enter the host names and, > presumably, they do a lookup for the IP addresses. > > Apparently, I need to delete my name servers, then add them back in, > to force a new lookup, otherwise the registrar won't know there are > new IP addresses for the servers. Gads, this 'convenience' (the > lookup, so I don't have to enter the IPs manually) is really no help > at all. If they'd always asked for the server IPs, I'd have *known* I > needed to update them manually. Most registrars will simply update the IP -- you only need ask them, provided you are the authority who initially requested the DNS server entry. paul

Messages In This Thread: Re: updating name servers at registrar by After Hours on Apr 19, 2004 at 2:09:54 pm