On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 23:18 +0530, Akilan R wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Thanigai rajan >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> > Today I changed the IP of a particular domain, >> >> >> It will take 24 hours to 3 days for DNS > > in which century was this? it propagates in 10 minutes to a couple of > hours
This is the best case scenario; you may have been lucky to see the changes come through this fast. My domain registrar (GoDaddy) says it *may* take 48-72 hours for the changes to propagate worldwide. Changes are "pulled" by the various DNS servers and some may not if the host is in it's cache. A crippled workaround to this problem is: 1. define a new host name in your DNS server 2. force the "DNS" server to resolve this name i.e. host <new_host> ip_of_dns_server This will force the DNS server to query the SOA, realize the change in serial etc and update it's cache. As a rule of thumb fundamental changes to the domain entries should be done over the weekend. HTH -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
