OT: Propagation of my NS records?

Anand Buddhdev anandb at ripe.net
Mon Oct 4 15:29:33 UTC 2010


On 04/10/2010 16:01, online-reg wrote:

> Hi All: I think this is a little OT, but I’m wondering why changes to
> my NS records aren’t propagating when my NS is authoritative for my
> domain?
> 
> enigmedia.com is registered at NetSol and delegated to my NS:
> 
> ns.enigmedia.com (running on bind9/fedora) ns1.enigmedia.com (running
> on bind9/Freebsd)
> 
> Global TTL is 3h and TTL for the “NS1” record is 1200, but after
> changing the IP address of ns1 more than 24 hrs ago, it is not being
> picked up by NetSol’s servers.
> 
> NetSol is returning the old record: 209.159.154.165, while my zone
> file has 216.218.228.131.
> 
> I’ve seen this issue reported over the years, and the recommendation
> seems to be “complain to NetSol”.
> 
> Just wondering if something in my zone config is wrong, or if this is
> normal for changes to NS records? NetSol is just ignoring my TTLs and
> caching the old IP for as long as it wants?

I don't think NetSol automatically checks for updates to glue records.
You'll have to manually change the A records of your servers at NetSol
for them to be able to propagate the glue into the com zone.

Regards,

Anand Buddhdev
RIPE NCC



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