Name server priority?

ubersonic

ubersonic

ubersonic

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Quick one, when you do a whois on somebody it will have a bit like:

Name servers:
something1.google.com
notreal.ibm.com
notrealeither.ibm.com
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How is the priority of these determined? is it just the order they are listed or is it by a priority level set on the server? i.e can you give "notreal.ibm.com" higher priority than "something1.google.com" without editing their order on the whois list?
 
There is no priority per se. The whois will just be nameservers for the domain, they will be set by the domain providers isp, sometimes you can configure name servers in the same place that you configure the A record for your domain. The server itself will have a different dns specified within the OS dns configuration.
 
Basically the problem is that of the three name servers the first has been hijacked and is giving out spoof DNS info, the 2nd and 3rd name servers are giving out the correct info but I was wondering if the was a way to just increment the priority of servers 2 or 3 so they became higher priority as web traffic is getting diverted and emails are failing to arrive.

This is a pretty old system now (Server 2K machines), the guy who owns server 1 is currently in another country (it was only intended as a backup incase the others were offline at the same time as 2 and 3 are on the same site) so doing anything with that is a no go, I have access to 2 and 3 though.
 
You need to drop the 1st server from the domain.

Contact whoever manages the domain name and get them to remove the 1st servers NS record from the domain until the owner returns.
 
Cool, sadly the tag holder is the same person who owns the 1st server lol, nvm ill just leave a msg for him to sort it when he gets back (there only people still using this system are 2 MD's and its not even their main email address so its not super important)
 
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