[thelist] DNS and MX record woes

.jeff jeff at members.evolt.org
Tue Nov 19 13:42:01 CST 2002


john,

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> From: John Handelaar
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> 1)  You know that the domain's time-to-expire is 24
>     hours? If you made a change today it may not have
>     propogated yet
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Yes, 3600 seemed a might better than 86400.

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> 2)  My DNS kungfu isn't 100% either but I'd usually put
>     a priority of 0 (not 5) on my first-choice MX record
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those priorities were provided to me by the email host.  i suspect they
wanted me to put in 5 so that the mail server from the previous host would
take precedent until the propagation of dns took effect.

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> Incidentally, it's not just Yahoo - I'm getting MX
> resolving to thor.jeffhowden.com as a CNAME as well
> (tried from 2 locations).
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as i'm always looking to expand my arsenal of troubleshooting tools, i must
ask if you'd be willing to share some info on how you did that?

thanks,

.jeff

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