Serious DNS problem making my domain unusable

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Sep 27 14:27:01 UTC 1999


In article <7sis65$2oo$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <jordanr at my-deja.com> wrote:
>Well, it's still not working. The namesdirect.com people apparently did
>remove my domain (jrsoftware.org) from their DNS, because nslookup is
>now returning a "non-authorative" answer:
>
>> jrsoftware.org
>Server:  ns1.namesdirect.com
>Address:  209.40.101.7
>
>Non-authoritative answer:
>Name:    jrsoftware.org
>Address:  24.4.49.97
>
>However, my ISP's DNS (24.4.48.33) is still returning the old/wrong IP
>address for jrsoftware.org (209.40.101.7), and it's been almost two
>days now. How long should I wait on it to "refresh" the IP? Is there
>anything I can do with nslookup or a similar tool to force it to
>refresh?

It seems to be OK now.  The TTL on the old A record was 3 days.

If you use dig or enable debugging mode is nslookup you can see the TTLs of
records, to know how long it will take them to expire.

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