HELP! deleted dns but still not working

[Barry Margolin]

In article <NDBBLPEEALDMMKLPKODJKECNCAAA.mark at dfsolutions.com>,
Mark Jaggers <mark at dfsolutions.com> wrote:
>A Cobalt RAQ is a Linux based server.  Build by www.cobalt.net they use a
>web interface to administer email, web, dns etc.
>
>one server is 206.50.219.234 and the other is 206.50.219.235.  235 is the
>dns server.  that is where I had mail.dfsolutions.com at.  but I wanted to
>move it to the 234 address so I changed the dns entry to point to 234 and
>created mail.dfsolutions.com on the 234 server.  But after that when I
>accessed mail.dfsolutions.com it was still poionting to 235.  I even went as
>far as to deleteing all dns entried associated with dfsolutions.com.  But
>now when I try to access dfsolutions it still comes up.  So it is like I
>deleted it but the entry is still there somewhere.  I am new to all this, so
>any help would be nice.

I'm getting the correct address when I query your server.  As I mentioned
earlier, maybe your /etc/resolv.conf points to a caching nameserver.  The
TTL on your records are 86400 seconds = 1 day, so it can take that long for
them to time out of caches.

tools:~#302% dig mail.dfsolutions.com a @206.50.219.235

; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> mail.dfsolutions.com a @206.50.219.235 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 1, Addit: 1
;; QUESTIONS:
;;	mail.dfsolutions.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWERS:
mail.dfsolutions.com.	86400	A	206.50.219.234

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
dfsolutions.com.	86400	NS	brett.dfsconsulting.com.

;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
brett.dfsconsulting.com.	86400	A	206.50.219.235

;; Total query time: 117 msec
;; FROM: tools to SERVER: 206.50.219.235
;; WHEN: Fri Jan 14 17:19:15 2000
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 38  rcvd: 119

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