Re: [cobalt-users] domain not resolving.. propagating

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:55 AM 2/27/00 -0500, you wrote:

> Initial server used for this query: whois.networksolutions.com
> [snip]
>    Domain servers in listed order:
>
>    DNS1.BEAUTYTECH.COM          209.196.37.202
>    DNS2.BEAUTYTECH.COM          209.196.37.203
>
> I clicked those to look them up also and they are correct..

If these are correct for the domain that is NOT propagating properly, then 
it's possible that they've updated only their whois, but not the root records.

It's also possible that you've done something wrong, although from what 
you've written so far, it appears unlikely.

When you traceroute the domainname, do you see a route to your machine, or 
to the old one?

> Many years ago.. I was hosting at my ISP, he became to expensive and I
> moved on.. several weeks past and I still could not see the site on the new
> server.. I had a utility that would do look ups from different hosts to see
> where they were pointing.. I found a college in NJ that had his TTL set to
> something like 3 years instead of 3 day <G> and I contacted them and bingo
> done..

Presumably you meant that they cached a record for three years.  They could 
only define TTL for domains for which they hosted DNS, and if they did 
that, they could in no way control repropogation of the new information to 
any other name server on the Internet that already had the old record.

> I can not recall the name of this utility, and I haven't had the time to
> play with nslookup..

nslookup is your friend <smile>.  Learn how to play with it.  Or better 
yet, how to work with it <smile, again>.

>  what confuses me the most is 2 domains at hypermart
> were requested the same day to be moved.. one took one didn't.. I just
> resubmitted the change to Network Solutions..

Good luck !

Jeff

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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>