Domain name will not propagate

[ade67123]

I have never had any problems before but I am having trouble getting a domain name to propagate and just wondered i any of you guys have any ideas.

We have a domain registered @ 123reg.co.uk and I enter the nameservers correctly and then the ip addresses, it then says that changes have been submitted

The destination server is correctly set up this has been checked by the company we purchased the dedicated server from.

For some reason the domain name never propagates. I have now tried fur times. After about 10 hours I ping the nameservers they do not exist. I then ping the domain name this does not exist either. Am I jumping the gun? Should I give it longer?

From my own experience I have known this to start working almost immediately.

The server is correctly set up, it exists. When I ping the server it is showing.

 

[RhythmAce]

Praise the Lord!! You are running linux! Type 'dig domainname' from the shell and it will show you all the dns info for that domain. I don't know what those poor Windoze sufferers would do.

 

[thedaver]

From a practical sense, if you're creating a new domain or making changes to the nameservers or the assigned name servers, it's quite likely that you'll see 12-48 hours for this to shakeout over the Internet at large.

If you are convinced that your nameservers are configured, test them as RhythmAce suggests with

"dig @your.nameserver.tld

http://www.example.com"

where example.com is the affected domain.

You can also "dig @" using the IP of your nameserver.

If you are convinced that ALL of your nameservers are working correctly, and that ALL of your details in your registrar's records are correct, then you're now left waiting for caching to expire throughout the Internet DNS.

You can also consider reducing the life of the records themselves in your zones from 1d to 1h, but that's a different thread.....


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[Atavar]

I like to use the DNS lookup tool at

http://www.mob.net/~ted/tools/dns.php3

to check global convergence of DNS data. It is handy to be able to check from a selection of DNS servers.

If it is a brand new domain name it should start propogating almost immediately. If you are changing an existing DNS and you have for good fortune to have some advance notice it is always a good idea to shorten the TTL on the records a day or so ahead of time to allow faster updating. This is really of limited utility though, as many if not most of the big boys set a minimum TTL on everything in their nameservers that will over-ride your local settings.

If a new domain wasn't being published in a timely manner I would suggest you use a different registrar next time.