I'm changing my servers and I'm having trouble getting the DNS changed... I have the name servers set to ns1.allalias.com and ns2.allalias.com via my registrar, but these show up as pointing to my old IP address, how do I get them to point to my new server and new IP?

Thanks in advance for any help

ETA: I'm on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 3 with WHM/cPanel

There just seems to be no way to change the IP that my registrar assignes to a name server.... Dah!

Which domain name registrar are you using ?

One method might be to delete the ns1/ns2.allalias.com entry from the hostname and recreate them with the new IP. Not sure if it works with your registrar. I have no problems with GoDaddy though.

If not, write to your registrar and explain the situation. They probably can help you from there.

Thanks, I'll write to them (my registrar is ev1servers.net, but ironically they are not and have never been my host)

Thanks for your help -- it worked, but now I have a new, possibly related problem.

When you go to my site, http://allalias.com/forums/ , it says in purple "
You are currently being served by the NEW SERVER" but when you go to http://forums.allalias.com/ you get "You are currently being served by the OLD SERVER" -- it seems the subdomain is going to my old server.

To make sure this wasn't a mistake I uploaded a text file "old.txt" to my old server, which you can see here: http://forums.allalias.com/old.txt . However, it doesn't show up here, and you get a 404: http://allalias.com/forums/old.txt

ETA: Now, even more weird, going to http://www.allalias.com gives you the old server. Dah!

How can I fix this?

Thanks!

I am showing the old server links as dead.

Yeah, they keep going in and out.

Here is an updated version, as things have flipped:

http://allalias.com/forums/old.txt
http://forums.allalias.com/old.txt MISSING, meaning it's on the new server

http://allalias.com/forums/NEW.txt MISSING meaning it's on the old server
http://forums.allalias.com/NEW.txt

Ah, if it keeps changing then it seems that it is going through that propagation phase. Just wait a couple of hours and everything should normalize.

It still keeps flipping back and forth - this is at least the 3rd flip for me in 15 hours... is this normal?

DNS sometimes takes up to 3 days to propagate around the world. Still very archaic considering how far technology has progressed. I hear some registrars now make it possible for dns to propagate in shorter time.

Verisign is changing it to 5 minutes or less for the .com/.net around September.

.Orgs have been on a rapid update system for a while. (or so I believe)

Slashdot article
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/1.../1741225&tid=95

I am able to access my /forums/ folder via allalias.com/forums/ and via FTP , but can't access it via the subdomain anymore. Any ideas?

It seems to be working for me. A Traceroute shows it is pointing to a server on SM network

Edited by above post to say:

I am (now) able to access my /forums/ folder via allalias.com/forums/ and via FTP, but can't access it via the subdomain anymore. Any ideas?

It works for me. It could just be an issue of propagation. When you do a traceroute to forums.allalias.com what do you get ?