Re: Moving name servers

Scott Gifford wrote:
> DAve <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> The registrar (Register.com) provides nowhere to enter, update, change
>> the IP address of the name servers you use, only the FQDN.
>>
>> I do not see a place to change the IP address of ns[12].totallogic.com
>> *except* in my own authoritative name servers.
> 
> This data is in the WHOIS data, just like the rest of your nameserver
> registration.  You can see it here, for example:
> 
>     http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=ns1.totallogic.com&type=nameserver
> 
> All of the GTLD nameservers build their glue data from this
> information, and your registrar is responsible for providing the right
> data.
> 
> Your registrar has to provide some way to do this.  The registrars
> I've used have all provided some kind of a form to do this.
> register.com probably has one hidden away somewhere; if not call them,
> or change registrars.
> 
>> Paul J and John L have both stated I need to change the IP of
>> ns[12].totallogic.com in the .com servers. Other than allowing the
>> change in my own servers to propagate to the .com servers, I am at a
>> loss as how to do that.
> 
> I have never seen changes from my own servers propogate to a
> registrar's system or a GTLD server.  Maybe if your registrar has some
> special arrangement, like if they are a secondary DNS host for you,
> they have some other way of getting this information.  But it would
> surprise me.

Then my questions are warranted, and I was not nuts to think something 
was missing in the process. I opened a ticket with Register last night 
after John L's message.

We will see what they say. Thanks,

DAve


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