[thelist] DNS and MX record woes
MarsHall
evolt at marsorange.com
Tue Nov 19 12:54:00 CST 2002
On Tuesday, Nov 19, 2002, at 11:36 US/Central, .jeff wrote:
> first off, let me just say that the registrar was transferred last
> week and
> the dns was setup prior to the transfer and waiting for that to go
> through.
> i believe everything has propagated properly, but don't really have
> any way
> of knowing for sure.
......SNIP......
> unfortunately i know enough about dns to be dangerous, but not enough
> to
> know what's wrong with this setup. anyone have any ideas?
An Internic Whois Look-up returns:
-----------------------------------
Domain Name: ADULTDVDTODAY.COM
Registrar: GANDI
Whois Server: whois.gandi.net
Referral URL: http://www.gandi.net
Name Server: NS1.EVERYDNS.NET
Name Server: NS2.EVERYDNS.NET
Updated Date: 16-nov-2002
A local nslookup for the MX record returns:
---------------------------------------------
Non-authoritative answer:
adultdvdtoday.com canonical name = thor.jeffhowden.com
Authoritative answers can be found from:
jeffhowden.com
origin = dns1.alphashop.com
mail addr = administrator.alphashop.com
serial = 70
refresh = 900 (15M)
retry = 600 (10M)
expire = 86400 (1D)
minimum ttl = 3600 (1H)
Since the Whois record says that it was updated just three days ago (I
assume that was switching your DNS from alphashop.com to EVERYDNS.NET),
it looks to me like you just haven't given your new DNS settings time
to propagate.
Switching registrars and switching DNS servers are completely different
processes. Registrars are where the "domain ownership" records reside;
DNS servers are where the name-to-ipaddress mappings and such (the zone
files) reside.
Always expect DNS zone changes to take up to a full week to propagate!
Mars :)
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