I think I am getting old and incredibly forgetful. I used to know this but not now.

After yesterday's fiasco, I realized that how much I have taken things for granted. I was using ns1/ns2.theplanet.com for all my dns needs partly because I was proud to have associated my servers to The Planet brand name but it seems that when DLLSTX2 went down, it did bring down the ns1/ns2.theplanet.com DNS servers and although my servers were accessible via IP, they were not so via domain names. All my clients uses domain names access.

As such, I decided to move my DNS needs to a 3rd party service, dnsmadeeasy.com which seems great. I did the switch over when I got the entries all set up. Of course, when I do the whois on my domain names, it reflects the new DNS Servers but that is on record only and no reflection that the new DNS Servers are being used.

I knew there was something or somewhere I could use to check if all DNS queries are routed to the new DNS Servers but somehow I just cannot remember how.

This sudden loss of memory seems rather embarrassing and I was wondering if someone could point me to the right direction.

Thanks.

If you have access to a *nix box, you can use dig. It will show you the authoritative DNS servers that it is communicating with.

Sadly, I don't All Windows here. But thanks on the 'Dig' thing, I would guess there is something online which would have the same effect.

Thanks.

You might check out http://www.dnsstuff.com/

I did before I came here

dnsreport.com is god when it comes to checking out your domain! Anyway, if your domain has your new nameservers (and easywhois.com is another great tool here) then that is what will be used once the various dns servers around the world have purged their caches.

Yup, dnsreport.com does reflect the new DNS Servers almost off the bat, I would assume it took the info from the Whois then work from there. But I doubt that during that time, everything is propagate to the new dns servers since some of the additional 'A' records just did not seems active as yet.

Now I think it is transferred. But I will leave the old records around here in Orbit first the time being before having them removed.

Thanks.

eddy when i created new nameservers it took about about 48 hours

The reason it may take a while for new DNS records to show up on your computer is that your ISP has not updated their cached records. For this I suggest pointing your PC's DNS to an internal server that runs Microsoft DNS and set it up to forward queries to 4.2.2.1. If you need to see changes immediately, go to your internal server and change the forwarder to 4.2.2.4 for example and clear the cache. Then run "ipconfig/flushdns" on your PC to flush its cache. Then you should have the new records.

You can run nslookup.exe on a windows box and use the "set q" command to find out whatever you want about a zone. In your case you would then type "set q=ns" and then type a domain to see the nameservers. If nslookup happens to give a timeout error, just run it again (press F3) and it should pull it up.

Nslookup is the best utility in the world... Plus you dont actually have to go online to use it.

This is what I got for your domain,

Ah thanks. I knew I was missing something.

Looks like the switch is done.