Wrong Domain Name Pointing to my server

[msawyer]

I recently had my server set up, this past weekend to be exact, and while I know that it takes anywhere from 24 to 48 hours for the DNS changes to take effect, I am having a slight problem. I went to my registar and changed the DNS info there to the ns1.geodns.net and ns2.geodns.net and any whois server I go to reports the right nameservers. Yesterday (Sunday) the domain pointed to my correct site, while this moring it pointed to my old host, who I just had cancelled this morning, tried to do it over the weekend but they were closed. Anyhoo there is another domain name pointing to my server. Every ping I do to the various combos of my domain name either time out or come back as the old host. My question is did I do something wrong, or am I going to have to wait 48 hours from this morning to have it working correctly? Or is it something that is out of my control and if so who would I have to contact to get it figured it out? Thanks in advance for any help.

Mike

[rushman]

It is possible that one of the DNS servers for your ISP cached the new address, then went away, leaving a server with an older ttl value for the old host. I would wait the fill 48 hours. Also, do you know off hand what the ttl for you domain was on the old nameservers?

host -v yourdomain.dom (*nix)
nslookup -d yourdomain.com (windows)

If the TTL is high, it will slow the process down.

[msawyer]

If I'm reading the info correctly then which I assume I'm probably wrong, cause I hardly do anything correctly, then I could have close to 24 hours to wait. That's going off the last set of info from the nslookup -d jokesterx.com. So I guess I'll just have to wait. Thanks for the help, I forgot about the nslookup, learned it school. heh.

Mike