Question on wrong DNS information on Internet
Barry Margolin
barmar at genuity.net
Mon Dec 25 21:27:24 UTC 2000
In article <9248p2$o9u at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
CHANGE username to just westes <DELETE_westes at uscsw.com> wrote:
>We updated our primary DNS information about three weeks ago, and since then
>we have been noticing a quite bizarre symptom. ISPs will have the correct
>version of our DNS information, pulled from our primary, only to have that
>information change back to the old information, then flop back to new, and
>so forth. I cannot really explain the pattern, but it is starting to cause
>a lot of e-mail to bounce back to senders.
It would help if you said what domain you're managing and what information
is flip-flopping.
>What would cause this kind of flip-flop behavior in the DNS information for
>our domain being reported by different end-user sites?
The most common cause of obsolete data sticking around is forgetting to
update the glue records in the parent zone. If it's a .COM zone, you need
to submit a Modify Host form to NSI to change the IP address in the glue
record.
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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Burlington, MA
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