[TriLUG] OT: Router then Firewall

[Ian Kilgore]

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> 1) whois is not used by DNS in any manner, what so ever.  It's used by
> humans, as a database maintained by the registrars, of contact
> information for a given domain.  If I want to look up the name servers
> for a domain, I should use host or dig (no, you really shouldn't use
> nslookup, but it would work :) ).  If I want to look up who to contact
> about that domain, I should use whois.  Well, I'd probably trust the
> email contact listed in the SOA more, but if I needed more traditional
> contact methods, ala name, phone, address, whois provides that.  How
> would I use host or dig to find out what the delegating entity believes
> my name servers are, ie. instead of the whois command Jon suggested:
> `whois trilug.org`?
> 
Jon mentioned 'host -t ns <domain>'.. 'dig ns <domain>' works as well

> 2) Neither Tanner nor Jon touched on who you actually need to contact to
> update the information in the "whois" record.  There's a good buzzword
> name for that company or entity, which I'm sure they both know, but
> neglected to mention directly.

registrar?


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