Hi,
I have a problem with 4 DNS server displaying 2 different IP addresses for an A
record.
I'll explain my configuration.
I have 2 DNS servers in a data center, they are the SOA for all web domains.
I have 2 DNS servers on my office LAN, they are the SOA for all local and test
domains.
I have the domain www.e-netcomm.co.uk which is hosted on my data center servers
as this is a web domain about to go live.
The dns record looks like this
$TTL 3h
@ IN SOA vader.e-netcomm.co.uk. hostmaster.e-netcomm.co.uk. (
2002180603 ; serial
3h ; refresh after 3 hours
1h ; retry after 1 hour
1w ; Expire after 1 week
1h ) ; negative caching TTL of 1 hr
; Set Name Servers
e-netcomm.co.uk. IN NS vader.e-netcomm.co.uk.
e-netcomm.co.uk. IN NS maul.e-netcomm.co.uk.
; Set MX/Mail Hosts
e-netcomm.co.uk. IN MX 0 mail.e-netcomm.co.uk.
; set hosts
www IN A 212.113.200.68
mail IN A 212.113.200.71
ftp IN CNAME www
As you can see the www record points to the IP address 68
If I check this from the e-netcomm server, it looks good. It also looks good
from all random DNS servers I have checked it against.
# dig www.e-netcomm.co.uk
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> www.e-netcomm.co.uk
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49879
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.e-netcomm.co.uk. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.e-netcomm.co.uk. 10800 IN A 212.113.200.68
Now for the problem.
I go to my office servers, and check out www.e-netcomm.co.uk
[darcym@jordan ~]$ dig www.e-netcomm.co.uk
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> www.e-netcomm.co.uk
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28167
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.e-netcomm.co.uk. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.e-netcomm.co.uk. 9242 IN A 212.113.200.71
As you can see it resolve to 71
This record is more than 2 months old (ish)
I don't understand why this server has not picked up the new IP addresse (68)
when a.) the record should expire after 1 week (assuming the server was down)
b.) the refresh time for this record was 3 hours ? so as I understand it this
record should start to propogate down the DNS chain after 3 hours.
Can one have any suggestiosn / need specific information ???
Thanks,
Matt.
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