Debian.Org and nameservers
I just noticed that debian.org has a boatload of nameservers:
# host -t ns debian.org
debian.org NS saens.debian.org
debian.org NS va.debian.org
debian.org NS pandora.debian.org
debian.org NS murphy.debian.org
debian.org NS buoy.com
debian.org NS www2.buoy.com
debian.org NS ns2.cistron.nl
debian.org NS miriam.fuller.edu
debian.org NS open.hands.com
debian.org NS ns1.waw.com
debian.org NS ns1.ldsol.com
debian.org NS samosa.debian.org
However, for a nameserver to be useful, it must be registered at internic.
It's no use to say "ns.domain.com is the nameserver for domain.com" if
ns.domain.com isn't registered at a root nameserver itself (chicken-egg).
Well, for most of the nameservers with debian.org:
# for i in saens.debian.org va.debian.org pandora.debian.org murphy.debian.org samosa.debian.org; do host -a $i a.root-servers.net; done
saens.debian.org ANY record currently not present at a.root-servers.net
va.debian.org A 209.81.8.242
pandora.debian.org ANY record currently not present at a.root-servers.net
murphy.debian.org ANY record currently not present at a.root-servers.net
samosa.debian.org ANY record currently not present at a.root-servers.net
So, listing saens, pandora, murphy and samosa as nameservers for debian.org
is useless.
Another thing, according to Internic only 3 servers have been registered
as nameservers for debian.org:
# host -t ns debian.org a.root-servers.net
debian.org NS BUOY.COM
debian.org NS WWW2.BUOY.COM
debian.org NS VA.debian.org
So the nameservers at cistron, fuller, hands, waw and ldsol are of
questionable use as well.
Perhaps someone should fix this ..
Mike.
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