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Cc: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com>
Subject: Re: MX freebsd
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At 04:53 PM 11/25/2005, Beecher Rintoul wrote:
>On Friday 25 November 2005 03:43 pm, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> > dick hoogendijk writes:
> > > Any idea how long it takes until the MX freebsd mailservers know that
> > > my mail relay has changed? It's three days ago now that I changed my MX
> > > records and still mail for nagual.st is routed to my old mx
> > > mailservers.
> > >
> > >dig nagual.st mx
> >
> > ;;; QUESTION SECTION:
> > ;nagual.st.                     IN      MX
> >
> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > nagual.st.              86400   IN      MX      10 mx1.mailhop.org.
> > nagual.st.              86400   IN      MX      20 mx2.mailhop.org.
> >
> > >bc
> >
> > 86400/3600
> > 24
> >
> >
> > Should only take a day based on the results above.
> >
> > The command to see your XM settings is
> > dig <url> mx
>
>Did you update the serial number when you changed the MX record?
>Servers downline will not see the changes otherwise.

Actually, the serial number is only used by the slave servers for a 
particular zone to decide whether or not a zone transfer is needed.

-Glenn


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