title: Where to get authoritative DNS information and is whois accurate
body: <p>I've been told that there is a problem with the DNS records for for the following domain: horoscope-feeds.com, but I'm not yet convinced there is a problem with it.</p>
  
  <p>When I do</p>
  
  <pre><code>host -C -a horoscope-feeds.com
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get the response</p>
  
  <pre><code>Trying "horoscope-feeds.com"
  Received 184 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53 in 46 ms
  Trying "horoscope-feeds.com"
  ;; -&gt;&gt;HEADER&lt;&lt;- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21074
  ;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
  
  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;horoscope-feeds.com.       IN  SOA
  
  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  horoscope-feeds.com.    86400   IN  SOA ns.horoscope-feeds.com. peter.ward33.btopenworld.com. 1341590337 10800 3600 604800 10800
  
  ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
  horoscope-feeds.com.    86400   IN  NS  ns.horoscope-feeds.com.
  
  ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
  ns.horoscope-feeds.com. 86400   IN  A   109.228.2.80
  
  Received 131 bytes from 109.228.2.80#53 in 44 ms
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which I understand as meaning that the authoritative name server for this domain is ns.horoscope-feeds.com. However a whois lookup for the domain yeilds two nameservers:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Nameserver:     ns1.horoscope-feeds.com
  Nameserver:     ns2.horoscope-feeds.com
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I thought that whois information is not guaranteed to be accurate and that domain information should not be taken from this source.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone tell me if the DNS set up for this domain is wrong in any way and if so how? Also where is the final authority on the DNS records for a domain and how do I get that information?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>