Mail-Server re-location NOT completely done. Some old DNS entries seems to exist until now.

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Wolfgang Hercker

Some weeks ago my mail server was put onto another machine with a different IP.
After a few days most of the eMail traffic was redirected successfully to the new mail server.

However there are still some eMails which are directed to the old mail server (which is still running).

Why ?

Is there a way to re-inforce the DNS re-location? In other words:
Is there a way to force a re-propagation of the Mail-Server DNS change information all
over the world wide Mail server structure?

Wolfgang
 
Some weeks ago my mail server was put onto another machine with a different IP.
After a few days most of the eMail traffic was redirected successfully to the new mail server.

However there are still some eMails which are directed to the old mail server (which is still running).

Why ?

Is there a way to re-inforce the DNS re-location? In other words:
Is there a way to force a re-propagation of the Mail-Server DNS change information all
over the world wide Mail server structure?

Wolfgang
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you have no control over how long a remote DNS server decides to
cache their DNS records.
Changing IP Addresses painful... just the way it is....

jack

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Wolfgang Hercker said:
Some weeks ago my mail server was put onto another machine with a
different IP.
After a few days most of the eMail traffic was redirected
successfully to the new mail server.

However there are still some eMails which are directed to the old
mail server (which is still running).

Why ?

Is there a way to re-inforce the DNS re-location? In other words:
Is there a way to force a re-propagation of the Mail-Server DNS
change information all
over the world wide Mail server structure?

Wolfgang
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Not really the best group for this question - I'd have recommended a DNS
group.

That said: why is the old mail server still running if you don't plan to use
it?

Next time, before you make this sort of change, have whomever hosts the
public DNS for that domain, lower the TTL (time to live) several days
beforehand, so the changes you make won't take so long to "propogate". Then
reset the TTL when you're done.
 
Some weeks ago my mail server was put onto another machine with a different IP.
After a few days most of the eMail traffic was redirected successfully to the new mail server.

However there are still some eMails which are directed to the old mail server (which is still running).

Why ?
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I used to work as a webmaster for a hosting company. Occasionally, we
had to move a site from one IP to another. I found that I had to leave
the old server up for many weeks until the requests finally tailed
off. Why indeed? It's a big ol' Internet out there, and not everybody
is "well behaved." C'est la vie.
 
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