Quick question: because I think I messed up.
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Do the Name Server records over ride other records like the SOA records? I have changed the name server records for my godaddy domain which makes DNS unmanageable through their interface. I have the records present in on the hosted name server but I am getting no indication that traffic is being redirected. ???!!!
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@popester said in Quick question: because I think I messed up.:
Do the Name Server records over ride other records like the SOA records? I have changed the name server records for my godaddy domain which makes DNS unmanageable through their interface. I have the records present in on the hosted name server but I am getting no indication that traffic is being redirected. ???!!!
If you changed the name server, you manage the dns records through the nameserver you changed it to. Not godaddy anymore. You will need to change the name servers back to godaddy if you weren't ready for that change.
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Thank you. I am ready, I believe. It is just taking longer than I was expecting. Is there a better way to do this sort of thing? It seems like this is my only choice. I have all the records in place at the new name server. I appreciate your help.
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@popester said in Quick question: because I think I messed up.:
Thank you. I am ready, I believe. It is just taking longer than I was expecting. Is there a better way to do this sort of thing? It seems like this is my only choice. I have all the records in place at the new name server. I appreciate your help.
It just depends on where everything is. It could take 48 hours to 100% take effect world wide. Sometimes it starts working in minutes depending on where the everything is geographically. But not usually.
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@popester said in Quick question: because I think I messed up.:
Thank you. I am ready, I believe. It is just taking longer than I was expecting. Is there a better way to do this sort of thing? It seems like this is my only choice. I have all the records in place at the new name server. I appreciate your help.
Could be the timeout setting is quite long. 2 weeks used to be a common setting, so it could take some time if you didn't change that setting beforehand.
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@popester said in Quick question: because I think I messed up.:
Thank you. I am ready, I believe. It is just taking longer than I was expecting. Is there a better way to do this sort of thing? It seems like this is my only choice. I have all the records in place at the new name server. I appreciate your help.
I will take a little time for things to sync, so don't panic yet. Sometimes a few hours in my experiences.
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Yeah change it to CF which acts as reverseproxy and then any future changes will be instant.
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The new DNS servers should be seen as the SOA almost immediately, but as mentioned, any DNS server that pulled records (cached them) will wait out their TTL before looking back to get updated information and discovering the new SOA.
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digis your friend.Show the SOA
Show results from your default DNS (typically assigned by your DHCP server to your machine)
Show results from a specifc DNS server. In this example, cloudflare
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@travisdh1 said in Quick question: because I think I messed up.:
Could be the timeout setting is quite long. 2 weeks used to be a common setting, so it could take some time if you didn't change that setting beforehand.
Excellent point. For years we have been making it a point to set the timeout to 900 seconds as soon as we new there was going to be a change in the future. Not all name servers honor it, but is sure has had a positive impact to the overall propagation time.
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Thanks for all the help. The Dig command is now in my tool bag. Thank you Jared.
Confession time: 7.5 hrs into the 48 hr wait and hope, I discovered an issue.
The domain was wardmechanical.com.
Our isp, which we have a great relationship with (they are awesome) put in the initial DNS entry for me because we were working on the website (we have a guy for website stuff). I was sitting reading about DNS going over in my head what I could have done wrong. While starring at the DNS entry page it suddenly jumped out at me.
The zone was set up with wardmechancial.com
The I and C were transposed........ Wow........ :astonished_face:
So I did a FTFY and within seconds things started talking.
Ya live, ya learn, ya die......
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@popester said in Quick question: because I think I messed up.:
The I and C were transposed........ Wow........
Typos drive me insane! Glad you found it before you suffered a catastrophe.
