Hmmmm, well this is ver ystrange. I registered a domain on the 26th in the COM zone. It appears in the whois ok, but a traceroute from just about anywhere in the world - even in Australia - fails, "unknown host". Yet it is already the 30th now - 4 days. There are other domains registered and all working fine after only a short time, so I can't understand why this one is sticking... robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Schneiders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "opensrs-discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 7:42 AM Subject: Re: [Q] Period from registration to traceroute success? US/CA to Oz > On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Merlin wrote: > > > Just wondering what the average propogation time to the US and Europe is for > > newly registered domains. Set on nameservers in Oz . > > > > anyone researched this at all? > > Haven't researched this, but may perhaps offer some suggestions > towards finding an answer. > > I understand the a.gtld is updated twice a day at 5 am and 5 pm > EDT/EST. (Anyone who can confirm this?) Domains registered 6 hours or > so before that, I have seen working soon after the times mentioned. > But I did not write down times etc. Maybe the interval is shorter. > > You may find the answer by registering a domain and then try > traceroutes *from* sites in Europe and the US, if you are worried > about propagation to those parts. There are many web-traceroutes > available. See http://www.traceroute.org or for Dutch ones (we are the > center of Europe :-) http://www.traceroute.nl. > > Whether the nameservers are in Australia or in China or Europa doesn't > seem to make a difference. What counts is when all the gtld-servers > know about it. And they update themselves at different times, I > assume. > > -- > Marc Schneiders (rest in header) > > > > >
