If you have it, I prefer to use dig, it gives you rather more information $ dig razzledazzle.it
; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> razzledazzle.it ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 61546 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;razzledazzle.it. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: razzledazzle.it. 86400 IN A 75.101.163.44 razzledazzle.it. 86400 IN A 119.252.176.47 razzledazzle.it. 86400 IN A 174.129.212.2 razzledazzle.it. 86400 IN A 75.101.145.87 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: razzledazzle.it. 86400 IN NS ns1.instradns.com. razzledazzle.it. 86400 IN NS ns2.instradns.com. razzledazzle.it. 86400 IN NS ns3.instradns.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns3.instradns.com. 56009 IN A 78.129.204.66 ;; Query time: 130 msec ;; SERVER: 194.72.238.4#53(194.72.238.4) ;; WHEN: Tue Feb 9 10:38:07 2010 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 180 ========== Note that one of the four A records in there points to instra.com $ host 119.252.176.47 47.176.252.119.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer redirector.instra.com. So you have a one in four chance of getting the redirector, instead of one of the heroku machines. You need to remove those additional A records. Also, the 86400's are the TTL (Time To Live) of the records, in seconds. 86,400 seconds is 24 hours. So any change you make to the records will take up to that time to expire. You should be able to change the TTL of the records from within your registrars control panel. Normally the first thing you do before moving a server is drop the TTL to a few minutes (some registrars require a minimum of 15 minutes), and wait until that change has propagated. Once that has filtered down through the DNS system, you can change records and see the results consistently after that period, minimizing any downtime or parallel running you might have to do. DNS changes are one of the reasons you have to plan server moves quite carefully in advance. I hope that helps Paul Leader -- li: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulleader cv: http://paulleader.co.uk/paul_leader_cv.pdf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
