DNS: My registrar only has room for 4 nameservers in WHOIS
I am in the process of moving all of my domains from Slicehost to Linode. I use Dreamhost as my domain registrar. Unfortunately, the Dreamhost web app for modifying WHOIS information only allows 4 nameservers to be specified.
Are there any adverse side effects when a WHOIS record contain ns1-ns4.linode.com (without ns5.linode.com) while having all 5 NS records listed in each domain zone?
Thanks!
- Ricci
[~] whois iccir.info | grep :NS
Name Server:NS1.LINODE.COM
Name Server:NS2.LINODE.COM
Name Server:NS3.LINODE.COM
Name Server:NS4.LINODE.COM
[~] dig ns iccir.info | grep "NS"
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;iccir.info. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
iccir.info. 86396 IN NS ns2.linode.com.
iccir.info. 86396 IN NS ns3.linode.com.
iccir.info. 86396 IN NS ns5.linode.com.
iccir.info. 86396 IN NS ns1.linode.com.
iccir.info. 86396 IN NS ns4.linode.com.
2 Replies
@ricciadams:
Are there any adverse side effects when a WHOIS record contain ns1-ns4.linode.com (without ns5.linode.com) while having all 5 NS records listed in each domain zone?
Not really. Just the obvious one: Clients won't ever send their first query to ns5. But since there are 4 others, it doesn't matter.
The only other side effect is that some DNS configuration checking tools will whine at you, but you can safely ignore it. (Edit: Those tools are right to be concerned. Such configuration inconsistencies are often serious problems. This time it's okay, though.)
Silly of your registrar not to allow more nameservers, though. Maybe you should switch to a different one that puts more effort into it.
