[RndTbl] CIRA caching ancient glue records.

[Sean Cody]

Last time I tried, I was immediately dumped to the registrar.
A very sour experience.

Will try again.

-- 
Sean

On 2012-04-01, at 5:29 PM, Bill Reid <billreid at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I think you raised this issue before. Have you contacted customer service at CIRA? I would think this would be a relatively common occurence.
> 
> On 01/04/12 12:53, Sean Cody wrote:
>> I'm having a strange issue (for a couple years) in that when my NS server change IPs (once every 2-3 years as I change ISPs) CIRA doesn't change it's glue records accordingly.
>> 
>> For instance... I move my NS servers ns1 and ns2 and of course their IPs change..
>>    ns1.domain.ca    172.16.101.1
>>    ns2.domain.ca    172.16.101.2
>> 
>> I will log into my registrar and try and have them update the zone (the two registrars I use have different behaviour).
>> 
>> After a day or so I can see the whois info changes yet the OLD IPs for ns1 and ns2 persist.
>> 
>> To get around this I have to come up with 'new' names for the DNS servers...
>> 
>> I've so far used up:
>>    ns1,ns2.$domain
>>    a.ns,b.ns.$domain
>>    dnsa,dnsb.$domain
>>    nsa,nsb.$domain
>> 
>> Does anyone have any suggestion on how I can ask cira to just flush all glue records so I can go back to my preferred NS names?
>> Taking out this root domain nerfs about a dozen other domains.
>> 
>> I'm about to just start chosing random strings for the NS server names but it is a bit much to ask folks to update their NS to joiafjsdpfoij.$domain.com. :P
>> 
>> This behaviour persists across multiple .ca registrars which leads me to believe something at CIRA is not being reset properly (ie. when registrar does a zone update they are not requesting a flush or something...).
>> 
>> I suppose I _could_ try moving my root domain to another registrar but again that will take me offline yet again and induce another bout of DNS rage.
>> 
>> 
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