[AusNOG] Are domain name server pointers reliant on registrar name server?

[Bradley Silverman]

Hi Matt,

A lot of confusing answers in here, even to me and this is my job to
understand them.

To answer your exact question without filler information:
Your registrar (Synergy Wholesale, TPP Wholesale, NetRegistry) need to have
the Nameserver records (ns1.server.net and ns2.server.net) for the domain (
Example.com.au).
Then your actual nameservers (ns1.server.net and ns2.server.net) actually
require the exact same nameserver records. Trust me, I have seen things go
awry when this isn't the case.

While you are technically reliant on the root, auDA, and Affilias, all
their job is to get someones request to the .com.au namespace TO the actual
.com.au domains, and not something you ever have to worry about.

All you need to do is make sure both your registrar and your nameservers
point to your nameservers. Does that make sense?
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 6:16 AM Matt Selbst <matt.j.selbst at gmail.com> wrote:

> Right, so for the sake of clarity as I understand it from the responses -
> I'm reliant on root, auDA and Afilias name servers but NOT my registrar
> e.g. Synergy Wholesale, TPP Wholesale, NetRegistry etc....
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 5:59 AM Peter Fern <ausnog at 0xc0dedbad.com> wrote:
>
>> On 28/10/18 11:58 pm, Chad Kelly wrote:
>> > On 10/28/2018 11:10 PM, ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net wrote:
>> >
>> >> The original post was asking if the registrar is relied upon here
>> >> (and the answer is no).
>> > But the nameservers themselves still need to be listed at the
>> > registrar level so that they can be found on the public internet.
>> > Otherwise you run into issues with dns lookups and them not being able
>> > to resolve your dns correctly.
>> > They call this having registry hosts.
>> >
>>
>> registrar != registry
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