DNS propagation problems - changed ip

[Derek Ragona]

Alex,

You are very welcome.  Now that you are an expert, be sure to help the next 
guy out.

         -Derek


At 11:26 PM 1/3/2007, Alex Teslik wrote:
>Hi Derek,
>
>   Thank you very much. Sure enough, a call to the registrar and the ips
>finally became updated - seconds later everything started pouring in. Whew!
>   I misunderstood DNS in this scenario. My understanding was that an update
>of the DNS broadcast from my server would automatically update everything
>out there. I suppose now that I think about it more a manual update to the
>*authoritative* nameserver seems reasonable. I noticed that
>non-authoritative nameservers for the other domains I host automatically
>snapped into place once the authoritative one got back in line.
>    Thanks again!
>
>
>On 1/3/07, Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Your registrar for the domain maintains actual IP's for your
>>authoritative DNS servers.  If you moved those from one IP to another,
>>update the registrars record to reflect the new addresses.
>>
>>         -Derek
>>
>>
>>At 10:30 AM 1/3/2007, Alex Teslik wrote:
>>
>>Hello,
>>
>>    I changed the ip address of my server (physical move to a new location)
>>and updated my dns. Logs show that everything is fine. I can get out to
>>other sites just fine, send email, and internally everything is working
>>fine. However, I updated on Jan 1st and the changes for the nameservers
>>have
>>still not propagated out anywhere. Logs show no one hitting the server.
>>I'm
>>starting to get worried.
>>    The db file has this data:
>>
>>                2007010101      ; Serial (year,month,day,version_that_day)
>>                86400           ; refresh (1 day)
>>                7200            ; retry (2 hours)
>>                8640000         ; expire (100 days)
>>                86400 )         ; minimum (1 day)
>>
>>So after 1 day external DNS's should update to the new info.
>>    The only other bit of info that I can't figure out is that in the logs
>>I'm getting this message:
>>
>>Jan  2 02:44:16 gouda /kernel: arplookup 10.1.10.1 failed: host is not on
>>local network
>>
>>but 10.1.10.1 has nothing to do with my network, so I have no idea which
>>service is trying to get to this. I grepped all etc and usr/local/etc bu
>>nothing have that ip.
>>
>>Finally, nslookup is working on any address including my own. Thats makes
>>me
>>think DNS is working properly... Any ideas on what else I can check that
>>might not be right?
>>
>>Thanks
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