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Date:      Tue, 02 Oct 2001 18:09:33 -0500
From:      Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DNS Question
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20011002180414.04bdd358@mail.Go2France.com>
In-Reply-To: <200110022243.f92MhIT41233@trancer.trancer.com>

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>I acting as the primary nameserver for a friend's domain.  Several
>weeks ago he changed the IP address

... of what?

>and I updated the DNS records
>here for him.  Now if we do a:
>
>nslookup hisdomain serverx

don't use nslookup, use dig.

>we get his old IP address back.  If we turn around and do a:
>
>dig @serverx hisdomain
>
>we get the new IP address back

sounds like it's working.

>, then if we go back and do another
>nslookup, it returns the correct IP.

sounds like it's working

>   I expected cached entries to
>expire after 7 days

there is a 7 day TTL on the record you changed?

>, so I'm confused about where other servers are
>getting the old IP address.

can you tell us this secret domain so we can check it ourselves?

Len

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