DNS
3 posts tagged with DNS.
Why your DNS change isn't propagating: the five timers that actually govern it
'DNS propagation' has nothing to do with how long it takes. There is no single timer. There are five separate caches between your registrar and your visitors' resolvers — and you need to understand all of them to predict the answer to 'when will the new record be live?'
clientHold, redemptionPeriod, pendingDelete: every state your domain can be in, decoded
Domains do not simply go from 'active' to 'gone'. They pass through a precisely-defined sequence of states — most invisible to the owner until something breaks. Here is the full lifecycle, the EPP codes that mark each step, and exactly how long you have to react at every point.
DNS propagation isn't a thing — here's what's actually happening
The phrase 'DNS propagation' is misleading. There's no synchronous global update. What you're actually waiting for is a million independent caches to expire — and that timing depends on choices made by you, your registrar, and every resolver in between.