PHWinfo - Afficher un message - Mail-Server re-location NOT completely done. Some old DNS entries seems to exist until now.

09/10/2006, 19h34

On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:48:20 +0000, Mark Andrews wrote:

> In article <452790e4$0$32418$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net>,
> Wolfgang Hercker <w.hercker@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>Some weeks ago my mail server was put onto another machine with a
>>different IP. After a few days most of the eMail traffic was redirected
>>successfully to the new mail server.
>>
>>However there are still some eMails which are directed to the old mail
>>server (which is still running).
>>
>>Why ?

Probably because some spammers cache MX records. Don't ask me why, I've
seen it happen more than once. Are you sure that is legitimate mail on the
old MX?

>>
>>Is there a way to re-inforce the DNS re-location? In other words: Is
>>there a way to force a re-propagation of the Mail-Server DNS change
>>information all
>>over the world wide Mail server structure?
>
> Firstly it doesn't "propagation all over the world". The only
> propogation is between the DNS servers for the zone. The rest of the
> world queries these servers when they want a answer.

It does propagate all over the world. As long as the information is cached
by parties they will use old information. The new information can thus be
seen to propagate over the world. God knows I've seen it happen way to
many times (hint set your TTL to 0 some time before making changes).

> This sounds like you also changed the nameservers for the zone but failed
> to make the old servers serve the new content or to stop the old servers
> serving the zone.

Or, the new SOA for the zone is less than the old SOA. Or any of the more
common DNS setup errors.

M4
--
Redundancy is a great way to introduce more single points of failure.

09/10/2006, 19h34	#3
Martijn Lievaart Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: Mail-Server re-location NOT completely done. Some old DNS entries seems to exist until now. On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:48:20 +0000, Mark Andrews wrote: > In article <452790e4$0$32418$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net>, > Wolfgang Hercker <w.hercker@hotmail.com> wrote: >>Some weeks ago my mail server was put onto another machine with a >>different IP. After a few days most of the eMail traffic was redirected >>successfully to the new mail server. >> >>However there are still some eMails which are directed to the old mail >>server (which is still running). >> >>Why ? Probably because some spammers cache MX records. Don't ask me why, I've seen it happen more than once. Are you sure that is legitimate mail on the old MX? >> >>Is there a way to re-inforce the DNS re-location? In other words: Is >>there a way to force a re-propagation of the Mail-Server DNS change >>information all >>over the world wide Mail server structure? > > Firstly it doesn't "propagation all over the world". The only > propogation is between the DNS servers for the zone. The rest of the > world queries these servers when they want a answer. It does propagate all over the world. As long as the information is cached by parties they will use old information. The new information can thus be seen to propagate over the world. God knows I've seen it happen way to many times (hint set your TTL to 0 some time before making changes). > This sounds like you also changed the nameservers for the zone but failed > to make the old servers serve the new content or to stop the old servers > serving the zone. Or, the new SOA for the zone is less than the old SOA. Or any of the more common DNS setup errors. M4 -- Redundancy is a great way to introduce more single points of failure.