DNS Authority Question

[Danny Mayer]

At 07:02 PM 11/12/02, Joshua Kuo wrote:

>O
> > Did you remember to update the serial in the SOA record?
> > You can use
> > dig @master-dns.my.isp beavis.com mx
> > to make sure that you're asking the master DNS server you just updated.
> > Depending on what the master/slaves are running and how they are
> > configured, the changes might take a while to propagate to the slave
> > servers.
>
>thank you for your help.
>
>yes, i did update the SOA record. in fact, the admin before me wrote a
>script to do everything automatically, all i have to do is update the MX
>record, and run the script, and it will generate all the necessary config
>files for me.
>
>and yes, i am aware of the fact that it may take a while to propagate to
>the slave. i've been dealing with it for the past 2 weeks, and i don't
>think it takes that long to come down (i have double checked it, from our
>master to slave it only takes 24 hours).

That means the slave is not receiving notifies which it should get within
minutes. You need to look at your configuration files and find out
if you turned off notify.

Danny

>thank you very much for your help, i am sorry that i failed to mention
>these facts.