Are your resolution problems internal or external? If external, you just
have to wait for the changes to propagate throughout DNS-dom. Although the
root and top-level servers are updated daily those changes do not cascade
immediately. Part of the problem is that an address (A) record already exist
for your domain. If this were not the case, resolution queries for your
domain would be referred by local DNS servers to their respective root
servers which would have a pointer to the root name server for your domain.
As it stands, most name servers already think they know what your IP is so
they resolve locally. Each DNS zone has a Start of Authority (SOA) record.
The SOA contains several fields that define how often to refresh information
and when records expire. These refresh/expire times are what you are waiting
on. If your business depends on proper resolution you should keep previous
addresses active in a forwarding mode for at least a month after you have
switched IP addresses and submitted your DNS changes.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 1:43 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: ip address?
Hello all,
I'm sure someone out there knows about changing IP addresses we just changes
ours and it has been almost a week and its still is going to the old ip on
some servers. Why does this take so long, and is there a faster way to do
this?
- Mark :o)
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