[KLUG Members] how do find who is holding my dns records

[Peter Buxton]

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> I need to go above Ameritech as they where no help.

No, you have to go to the right people at Ameritech because it is a huge
company and you have to go to the right piece of it.
domains@SMARTPAGES.COM would be one start.

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 04:35:15PM +0000, bkatsma@attbi.com wrote:

> I am planning on taking the plunge and setting up my own DNS servers
> but I am running into an issue.  A few years ago we set a ip/van
> (Private network) with one of our customers using Ameritech and at
> that time we had them register us a domain (lacksdesign.com).  So
> right now if you do a look up on that domain it shows Ameritech as the
> record holder (sorry I do not know the technical name).  I need to
> find out who is above them (again I do not know the technical name).
> So I can have them point to my dns servers.   Is there any why to find
> that out with nslookup,dig and/host?

Bad news. According to the following, you are registered with Network
Solutions. Now, this is not scientifically verified advice, but
apparently only Ameritech-sized companies can get decent service from
them. You either have to tell Network Solutions to change their NS
records for your domain, get Ameritech to do it for you, or get another
registrar and have them issue registry/NS change commands for you.

Good registrars may be researched at:

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=3D00/02/27/133257&mode=3Dthread&tid=
=3D95




killdevil:01:02:59:~$ whois lacksdesign.com


Whois Server Version 1.3

Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

   Domain Name: LACKSDESIGN.COM
   Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
   Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
   Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
   Name Server: NS1.AMERITECH.NET
   Name Server: NS2.AMERITECH.NET
   Updated Date: 12-nov-2001

*** unnecessary verbiage deleted ***

Registrant:
Lacks Industries (LACKSDESIGN-DOM)
   5460 Cascade Rd.
   Grand Rapids, MI 49546
   US

   Domain Name: LACKSDESIGN.COM

   Administrative Contact:
      Support, Sales  (SS7088)          domains@SMARTPAGES.COM
      SBC
      7 N. Fair Oaks, Suite 200
      Pasadena, CA 91103
      877.640.SMART (FAX) 248.740.3039
   Technical Contact:
      Ameritech  (AIM2-ORG)             dnsadmin@AMERITECH.NET
      Ameritech Interactive Media Services
      P.O. Box 940972
      Plano, TX 75075
      US
      312-960-3972Fax- 312-960-3981Fax- -
      Fax- - 312-960-3981

   Record expires on 09-Jan-2008.
   Record created on 08-Jan-1998.
   Database last updated on 6-Sep-2002 13:03:05 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS1.AMERITECH.NET            206.141.251.2
   NS2.AMERITECH.NET            206.141.193.168

killdevil:01:03:05:~$ dig lacksdesign.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> lacksdesign.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19993
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;lacksdesign.com.               IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
lacksdesign.com.        7200    IN      SOA     ns1.ameritech.net.
postmaster.ameritech.net. 199900000 3600 900 604800 7200

;; Query time: 74 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Sep  6 13:03:13 2002
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 97

killdevil:01:03:13:~$


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