Newbie MX Q. - Not Propagating?

Todd, Douglas M. DTODD at PARTNERS.ORG
Mon Dec 3 12:17:16 UTC 2001


Danny:

I do beleive that TTL, unless specified on the record, is your TTL on the
SOA.
==DMT>

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Danny Mayer [SMTP:mayer at gis.net]
> Sent:	Sunday, December 02, 2001 8:20 AM
> To:	Dave Bushnell; comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject:	Re: Newbie MX Q. - Not Propagating?
> 
> 
> At 11:39 AM 12/1/01, Dave Bushnell wrote:
> >But all the mail is still arriving on the old Sun box.  Does it take
> longer
> >for MX-related things to update?  Is there someone I can call?  :-) Very
> >frustrating.  Any suggestions you can make would be great, or any tool
> >recommendations as well, I'm a little worried that we'll reach Monday
> >morning without any luck.
> How long it takes depends on the TTL of the MX records.  There's noone to
> call unless it never happens.  The MX records are cached by the machines
> that regularly send mail to your domain so they don't go back and ask for
> them again until the record expires.
> 
>          Danny
> 


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