Help with DNS problems?

Hey everybody,

I haven't done anything with this in so long I'm really rusty on most of it. I've been running a web server and DNS server for supporting my telco so I needed to change ISPs, and thus IP addresses for the first time in 10 years.

I changed the A records of my bind configuration files to the new IP address and reloaded the name server, but the changes aren't propagating to the world. I've obviously done something wrong. All I did was update the serial number and change the IP address entries, for example, from:

ns1.tigerjimmy.com. IN A 209.98.143.194

to:

ns1.tigerjimmy.com. IN A 173.85.248.18

then did a kill -HUP on named. The log files show that the zones loaded.

Can anyone give me a hint on what I forgot here?

Thanks in advance,

Jim

What is the TTL set to for your domain? It'll be cached for that amount of time.

24 hours, but I made the change 2 days ago. Also, when I run an nslookup from a remote machine I get a nonexistent domain error...

If you are changing your DNS server IP for *.tigerjimmy.com, you need to tell one level up don't you? i.e. your DNS registrar.

Well, I thought I had done this, but it appears that the change was not committed. The registrar still had the old IP address for the name server. Thanks for reminding me to check the obvious!