Odd problem with DNS and IP change.

[Andrei Brezan]

Andrei Brezan wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> 	I have a strange problem and I don't know what to relate it to. My ISP
> changed my IP from (eg) 10.1.1.1 to 15.1.1.1. I have changed my zone
> files to reflect that change.
> 
> "dig -t mx domain.com" results in mail.domain.com 3600 IN A 15.1.1.1
> (the new ip). However when i try:
> 
> "ping mail.domain.com" it tries to get to 10.1.1.1 the old ip and gets
> time to live exceeded fro an ip along the route. When i try to ping
> domain.com it gets all ok as it pings the new ip. I've also tried dig
> @(forwarders in named.conf) and they to got the correct mx dns entry for
> domain.com.
> 	In rc.conf i have hostname="mail.domain.com" (eg), i haven't changed
> it, i'm thinking it's something related to hostid or hostuid but i don't
> know where to search for this topic.
> 	If anyone has a clue what to try or where to look upon this behavior
> please shed some light.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 

Disregard my noise. It was a file called hosts in /etc, changed there
the ip for mail.domain.com and now ping works ok.
Sorry about that.

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Andrei Brezan
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