domain: proppogation problem

[Luke Davis]

About your serial number: be sure to change it, every time you alter the
zone.  That probably means you have to add another digit.  I generally
use:

yyyymmddvr

So, I end up with serial numbers such as "2004020101", "2004020102".

I also usually use short TTLs, at least until I'm sure the domain is
stable (such as 3h).

Not that this is your problem, as I kind of suspect it isn't.

Does the whois record for your domain, correctly indicate your IP address
as the domain name server(s)?

Luke


 On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Hi all. Last night I got rndc working and now it seems the server is
> running as it should be. However, when I try resolving my domain from a
> machine other than mine, on a different network, it still isn't found.
> This means that I have still not been noticed by the root servers. I
> don't remember who said this, but what was mentioned was that the
> proppogation time had to do with the way your zone file was written.
> Would the MINTTL field of the SOA record by any chance have something to
> do with this? Currently, I have my serial number set to yyyymmdd format,
> refresh is 1H, retry is 2H, expire is 1W, and TTL is 1D. I assume that
> since TTL is set to 1 day that it can take up to 24 hours to proppogate,
> and that if I want to reduce this time I should reduce the TTL field? Am
> I still going wrong on something here? P.S: Thanks for all the replies
> so far!
>
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