At 5:16 PM -0700 1/14/02, Warren Michelsen imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >My SIMS is trying to send to a domain whose mail server address has >changed since SIMS started on 12-17-01. The old IP address for the >recipient server is still out there and not expired from some DNS >cache yet. > >Will SIMS start getting and using the new IP address when the >existing data expires? Or does SIMS cache DNS data locally, >requiring me to restart before I can even send to the MTA in >question? > >If I restart my server now (Mac OS 8.6) will any existing cached >data be replaced with fresh DNS data and the new IP address? > >If I recursively query the DNS server running on my SIMS box, I get >the new IP address now ( this morning it got me the old IP address) >but SIMS is still using the old IP address. This is why I'm asking
SIMS does not seem to cache DNS records itself. I see it making repeat requests for records that it should have cached if it did any caching. I suspect that your problem is one of a secondary authoritative server not updating properly and continuing to put out old records. Different queries can end up asking different authorities, and if one has not updated yet, it will keep giving the old records. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
