MX freebsd

[Steve Bertrand]

> Any idea how long it takes until the MX freebsd mailservers 
> know that my mail relay has changed? It's three days ago now 
> that I changed my MX records and still mail for nagual.st is 
> routed to my old mx mailservers. Mail arrives (luckely) 
> because those servers are still operational, but...(?) When 
> are the dns servers for the freebsd mailservers updated?

Here's what I have, a near full output. Are all your name servers
running on dynamic DNS? Could the lookups be coming from a stale DNS
cache?

What are the results that you are looking for? What are the results that
are incorrect? Have you done a dig against all your nameservers to
ensure they are all accurate? Are you running an MX cluster? Are your
secondary DNS servers reflecting the same records as the primar(ies)?

ie:

# dig @myprimary.dns.server mx mydomain.com
# dig @mysecondary.dns.server mx mydomain.com
# dig @mythird.dns.server mx mydomain.com
# ..3..4...and 5....

At minimum, we need to know the original (old) IP, and the proper (new)
IP of your MX records:

pearl# dig mx nagual.st

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> mx nagual.st 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53494
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 11
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      nagual.st, type = MX, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
nagual.st.              1D IN MX        10 mx1.mailhop.org.
nagual.st.              1D IN MX        20 mx2.mailhop.org.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
nagual.st.              1D IN NS        ns2.mydyndns.org.
nagual.st.              1D IN NS        ns3.mydyndns.org.
nagual.st.              1D IN NS        ns4.mydyndns.org.
nagual.st.              1D IN NS        ns5.mydyndns.org.
nagual.st.              1D IN NS        ns1.nagual.st.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mx1.mailhop.org.        1H IN A         63.208.196.176
mx1.mailhop.org.        1H IN A         63.208.196.175
mx2.mailhop.org.        1H IN A         204.13.250.92
mx2.mailhop.org.        1H IN A         204.13.249.91
mx2.mailhop.org.        1H IN A         204.13.249.92
mx2.mailhop.org.        1H IN A         204.13.250.91
ns2.mydyndns.org.       21h2m56s IN A   204.13.249.82
ns3.mydyndns.org.       10h26m41s IN A  63.209.15.211
ns4.mydyndns.org.       10h26m41s IN A  213.155.150.206
ns5.mydyndns.org.       9h14m46s IN A   63.208.196.93
ns1.nagual.st.          1D IN A         82.74.2.186

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