Trying to find out which nameservers this domain i on..
http://www.kingstontours.com

Whois does not reveal the namservers, and although the site is up and working fine, Ping or Tracert is unable to find the domain......... ?!! Weird!

Name Server: NS1.CENTRALINFO.NET
Name Server: NS2.CENTRALINFO.NET

The site http://www.kingstontours.com however is not on the same server.

Thanks for that, but what do you mean when you say it is not on the same server and how are you able to tell?

http://www.kingstontours.com

European Regional Internet Registry/RIPE NCC (NETBLK-213-RIPE)

http://www.centralinfo.net

CIS (NETBLK-UU-63-102-200-D3)

Traceroute

Thanks, but that means nothing to me. Could you explain please?

Centralinfo runs the dns for it, the ip address of http://www.kingstontours.com and the mail for the domain are at webnetics (sigh) and it was registered though discountdomains.co.uk

There you go.

Regards,

Tony Lucas

that means that centralinfo.com and http://www.kingstontours.com are hosted in different server .. no biggie really

DNS nameservers by default are not on the same server as a client's site, in order to ensure foolproof backup in case something fails.

However, in this case, the site 'kingsontours.com' uses CentralInfo's free DNS services (if you have a look at http://www.centralinfo.net you'll see they offer free DNS services for up to a certain no. of entries on your DNS records) and uses these services to point to their site on another server. This way they maintain full control over their own DNS records (such as mail, CNAME etc.) and can easily switch DNS records over without downtime should they switch servers or host providers.

And I see two of the guys above have beaten me by a min :D

I was not aware of the workings of having Nameservers with one company and setting it up so that it works with annother hosting provider. Genuine question therefore.