Hi Tony,

I can see the original DNS records are still current
(ie 
Name:   ns2.seol.net.au
Address: 203.220.28.7
Name:   ns1.seol.net.au
Address: 203.23.53.7)

But *if* you have only changed the new dns info to

Name Server: ns1.seol.net.au
Name Server IP: 203.220.28.7
Name Server: ns2.seol.net.au
Name Server IP: 203.220.28.8

on *Thursday* then don't panic as it takes up to 72 hours for these
changes to propagate out from your registrars database. I'm not sure why
you would be offline for Telstra dns users for a week - I don't see that
there is a connection if you've only changed your dns settings
yesterday.

If the changes haven't propagated after 72 hours I'd be contacting the
registrar to see what has happened. Hope this helps

Regards doug



-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Owen [mailto:tony§seol.net.au] 
Sent: Friday, 5 September 2003 11:01 PM
To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
Subject: [DNS] Glue and Stuff


Hi ,

I dont know if one should post DNS queries on this list, but I'm hoping
a guru can help me resolve the following problem, We have just moved
premises, and had setup a new nameserver ns2.seol.net.au (203.220.28.7)
at the new site several months ago. I have just turned off
ns1.seol.net.au (203.23.53.7) at the old site.

The idea was to move the turned off nameserver to the new site, and
bring it up under a new ip. I had our registrar justnet make the
following changes on thursday, these changes are showing on the whois
for seol.net.au.

Name Server: ns1.seol.net.au
Name Server IP: 203.220.28.7
Name Server: ns2.seol.net.au
Name Server IP: 203.220.28.8

The problem:

Currently 2 of Telstra's nameservers (used by ADSL customers) are
returning ns2 as our name server, but do not include an IP number. The
only "valid" nameserver they can find is 203.23.53.7 which is now turned
off. I do not no if the problem will persist after Telstra's servers
update new info from the Ausregistry, as if it is just "dirt" in the
record it will probably still be there.

I dont know if this makes sense to the reader, but it has caused us to
be "offline" to Telstra customers for a week now, and no amount of calls
to Telstra seem to be able to find who a probl like this would be
forwarded to.


I use a site dnsreport.com to gather the following info

ns2. [NO GLUE; No A record]
ns2.seol.net.au. [203.220.28.7 (NO GLUE)]
ns1.seol.net.au. [203.23.53.7 (NO GLUE)]

NOTE: These records may be inaccurate, since the parent servers
(dns1.telstra.net.) do not know the NS records for seol.net.au (or give
a referral to other DNS servers)! This may cause other tests not to work
properly, such as the 'Nameservers on separate class C' test.

Cheers Tony