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I have a client whose website has intermittent issues, which I believe are due to DNS lookup. When this happens and they do a ping, the host cannot be resolved. Therefore, I ran:

dig @a.gtld-servers.net autoquarterly.com

I get:

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.hostlatch.com.  172800  IN  A   109.73.173.210
ns2.hostlatch.com.  172800  IN  A   109.73.173.211

but these are not the correct IP addresses. If I do nslookup on the two nameservers, I get the correct IP addresses.

My question is where are these incorrect nameserver IP addresses coming from? I was under the impression these were glue records which are registered with the domain registrar. However, I noticed every domain I look up has the nameserver IP addresses in the ADDITIONAL section even though only domains which use a subdomain of their own domain name for their nameservers need glue records.

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  • How could we possibly know? You didn't mention the domain.
    – gparent
    Feb 17, 2015 at 18:59
  • In circumstances like this you should disclose the actual domain name if possible. Feb 17, 2015 at 19:23
  • Okay, the domain is autoquarterly.com. Thanks for your help.
    – Tom
    Feb 17, 2015 at 21:00
  • I checked the domain you gave and got similar results. You will want to change these entries yourself in your registrar's control panel, or if you really think this isn't your fault, you'll need to contact them to get them changed.
    – gparent
    Feb 17, 2015 at 21:12
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    These are called glue records and they are maintained by your domain registrar. You should be able to change them using your domain registrar's admin site.
    – John Homer
    Feb 17, 2015 at 21:20

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There was an issue with the glue records for hostlatch.com. When I ran dig, the a.gtld-servers.net server found the nameserver names and then looked up their IP addresses in the glue records for hostlatch.com, not the glue records for autoquarterly.com or any other nameserver. It was the glue records set by the hostlatch.com registrar that needed to be changed.

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