Subdomain Problem

[Kevin Darcy]

Customer: My car is having a problem.
Mechanic: Let me take a look at it.
Customer: Oh, it's not *this* car which is having the problem! This car is just
a "sample" of the car which is having the problem...

Why do people DO this?


- Kevin

Mitchell Krog wrote:

> Hi All
>
> Hope someone can help me out here.
> I seem to have problems adding host names under a
> main domain. The adding is not a problem but sometimes
> it takes forever or sometimes not at all for the new addition to
> be seen from elsewhere on the internet. We are running 8.2.2p5.
>
> A sample of how the domain is config'd:
>
> $TTL    43200
> $ORIGIN com.
> domainname              IN      SOA     me.mydomain.com. dns.mydomain.com. (
>                         2000103101      ; serial
>                         7200            ; refresh
>                         1200            ; retry
>                         604800  ; expire
>                         86400 ) ; default_ttl
>                 IN      NS      ns1.domain.com.
>                 IN      NS      ns2.domain.com.
>                 IN      MX      10      mx.domain.com.
> ;
> $ORIGIN domainname.com.
> localhost       IN      A       127.0.0.1
> www             IN      A       111.111.111.111
> www2            IN      A       111.111.111.112
> www3            IN      A       111.111.111.113
> subdomain       IN      A       111.111.111.114
> subdomain2      IN      A       111.111.111.115
> www4            IN      A       111.111.111.116
> mx              IN      A       111.111.111.117
> mail            IN      A       111.111.111.118
> sales           IN      A       111.111.111.119
>
> I have about 40 subdomains already which all work fine
> but when I add new ones it takes a long time or sometimes not all for the
> domains to be seen. I have checked the obvious like syntax errors and
> correct serial etc but this one has me stumped. I have reduced TTL's and
> expiries to try but that didn't help either so I have restored those to my
> defaults.
>
> Any help or suggestions is much appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Mitch