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Title: Updating DNS
Post by: dave on December 01, 2003, 10:42:46 PM

Hi All,
I run a few websites externally and have recently changed hosts and updated DNS with my domain registrar to use the new providers DNS servers.
However, when I connect to these sites from behind my e-smith 5.6 box they still resolve to the old host - seems to last this way for about a week!

Any ides on how to speed up this process? or how I flush my e-smith dns cache so it checks externally again first?

Title: Re: Updating DNS
Post by: bob on December 02, 2003, 04:29:49 AM

do a search on this site about clearing squid cache. That is where the issue is

bob

Title: Re: Updating DNS
Post by: Charlie Brady on December 02, 2003, 06:48:25 AM

bob wrote:

> do a search on this site about clearing squid cache. That is
> where the issue is

No, clearing the whole squid cache is a very brutal (and possibly very expensive) thing to do. If you want to refresh a page directly from the remote server, just learn the right key combination for your browser. It's shift-reload for Mozilla, and IIRC, ctrl-reload for IE.

Charlie

Title: Re: Updating DNS
Post by: Terry on December 02, 2003, 06:57:21 AM

That'd be CTRL-F5 (in IE) for anyone that's confused...

Charlie Brady wrote:
> Mozilla, and IIRC, ctrl-reload for IE.
>
> Charlie

Title: Re: Updating DNS
Post by: dave on December 02, 2003, 09:25:25 AM

i tried those and when that didn't work, ssh'd into my e-smith box and pinged one of the external sites - it is still pinging my old host - how do i get the dns on my e-smith to update?

Title: Re: Updating DNS
Post by: Kelvin on December 02, 2003, 01:01:39 PM

Dave,

Did you happen to configure your external host address under Server-Manager's Hostname and Addresses panel ? If you did, did you also update those addresses as well ?

Kelvin

Title: Re: Updating DNS
Post by: dave on December 02, 2003, 06:01:57 PM

Kelvin wrote:
>
> Dave,
>
> Did you happen to configure your external host address under
> Server-Manager's Hostname and Addresses panel ? If you did,
> did you also update those addresses as well ?
>
> Kelvin

no didn't set anything in server-manager...
any other ideas?

Title: Re: Updating DNS
Post by: dave on December 02, 2003, 09:26:17 PM

any ideas anyone?
i am behind the e-smith box now and can't get to either of the external sites that I moved to new servers last friday - the domain names are resolving through e-smith 5.6 to my old host!

Title: Re: Updating DNS
Post by: Kelvin on December 02, 2003, 11:47:36 PM

Hi Dave,

Have you tried rebooting the server ?

If you ping the external address and get the IP of a different host, it's probably a DNS resolution issue. If it is cached, perhaps a reboot will clear it.

This post might also be of some use :
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=17040.msg66080#msg66080

Regards,

Kelvin