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

[Matt Selbst]

Hey Bradley,

Thanks for your answer. So assuming I'm not using you for DNS hosting (e.g.
using a third party like CloudFlare or AWS Route53) then would your name
servers ever be involved in DNS queries for my domain?

-Matt

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:13 AM Bradley Silverman <
bsilverman at staff.ventraip.com> wrote:

> 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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