DNS issues on local network

seerad · 10-13-2009, 07:10 AM

Okay, so here's the issue. I've been searching for a solution for about a week now, and just can't seem to find any information. The company that I work for had me switch their site live so I went through and changed the DNS information and pointed the A records to the new server running an online store. I waited and waited and waited for the propagation to finish so I could keep working on developing the site. I talked to our hosting company and they assured me that they were being pointed to the new server and there was no issue. I changed the DNS on my own computer to point to openDNS and I could see that it did in fact change.

We are now two weeks into the change and we can still not view the site from our network. I am in need of any ideas you can give me! If you ping the site with the default DNS server you receive the old IP Address but if you ping it with the openDNS IP in place, you receive the IP of the new server. I've gone through and run a /flushdns, /release, and /renew. I am working from a mac so advice geared towards this would be helpful however, I do have access to several machines running XP.

I look forward to and appreciate any insight that you can offer with all of your eclectic wisdom.

thank you.

~ServerPoint~ · 10-15-2009, 02:39 AM

If you change A record the name servers should be default for the current domain name registrar

hcm2009 · 10-20-2009, 02:16 AM

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Originally Posted by ~ServerPoint~

If you change A record the name servers should be default for the current domain name registrar

Can you give some more samples? How great your info is! It really useful for me. Thanks.
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seerad · 10-15-2009, 07:18 AM

yeah, that makes sense, and I believe as far as I know that that has already been done. Again, it's propagated everywhere except in our office. But I can go on my blackberry or at home or anywhere else, and it's fine.

rumsfo · 10-16-2009, 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by seerad

yeah, that makes sense, and I believe as far as I know that that has already been done. Again, it's propagated everywhere except in our office. But I can go on my blackberry or at home or anywhere else, and it's fine.

In this case the problem is with your domain name registrar not with domain name registrar

seerad · 10-16-2009, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by rumsfo

In this case the problem is with your domain name registrar not with domain name registrar

did you happen to type that wrong?

assuming that you did mean to type something other than domain name registrar in one of those places, what would be the proper way to go about fixing said problem?

FGTH · 10-16-2009, 11:44 AM

1) Do a nslookup for your domain and verify that you have the correct name servers in the result.
2) Make sure you update the host headers for your site (shared IP). This resolves a website's domain mydomain.com (and it's alternative domain such as www.mydomain.com) to the server's shared IP.

**ScriptMan** · 10-16-2009, 02:19 PM

Seerad

This is a longshot, but one I have been kicking around in my mind since I played with bind/named the other day and read your post. I am not sure I even understand well enough to ask the right question but maybe you will get the drift.

Where is your local network pulling the dns info from? What I suspect is that some how the dns info is still locked onto the local address and is not being updated from the zone files.

To be honest the whole named/bind thing gave me a real headache so I was happy to find out I could avoid using it unless I wanted custom NS. Those I can live without.

Please do update the thread when you figure it out.

websiteguy · 10-20-2009, 08:04 AM

simply restart your name server so it gets you fresh records.
I think you are getting cache records in your dns. clear cache and update your local dns server.