[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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