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nachopo
04-05-2001, 12:25 AM
hi!
I need to clarify some ideas:
- I have one account in one reseller company (www.one.com)
- I registered in other reseller company because I looking for move from reseller company A to reseller company B.
- I have problems to move from one DNS to new one, but surprise I foud today my http://www.one.com poiting to new account in reseller B.

Question one: I think than when you put http://www.one.com in your browser, services looks at registrar witch DNS to look up, then it look up at this nameserver IP for this domain, then it charge this IP and the page.
Why I can point to new servers ?

Second question: if I use one.com I reached a different address that if i used http://www.one.com, why ?

regards,

compsci
04-05-2001, 01:37 AM
Question one: I think than when you put http://www.one.com in your browser, services looks at registrar witch DNS to look up, then it look up at this nameserver IP for this domain, then it charge this IP and the page.
When your browser wants to contact http://www.one.com and doesn't already know the IP, it asks your local nameserver. If it doesn't know the address, that nameserver is responsible for finding the answer (typically). Ultimately, a root nameserver for the .com domain is responsible for figuring out which name server knows the answer. The root servers know the nameservers that handle requests for your domain. The registrar puts that information there, but they are never directly queried in a DNS lookup.
Second question: if I use one.com I reached a different address that if i used http://www.one.com, why ?

One.com resolves to 208.169.220.66 while http://www.one.com resolves to 208.169.220.98. You'll need to have the DNS configured to point to the right address for both one.com and http://www.one.com.

I hope that answers your questions...

Ron