[Freeipa-users] DNS chages made from the WebUI take a long time to be recognized.

[Martin Kosek]

On 01/15/2013 05:29 AM, Tim Hildred wrote:
> Should it take several hours for me to be able to ping a host at it's new IP address when I update the DNS record in the WebUI?
>
> I deleted the old records (A and PTR), and added new records for the same FQDN, with a different IP address. But I can't ping the host using the FQDN.
>
> Tim Hildred, RHCE
> Content Author II - Engineering Content Services, Red Hat, Inc.
> Brisbane, Australia
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Hello Tim,

Isn't DNS caching taking place in your situation? I would check TTL of the 
records you try to change and retrieve.

Do you hit the same issue when you add a new record (a new FQDN)? I would also 
check if nscd in your client box is not running, it may cache these DNS records.

Martin