DNS updating is now instant?
 

I'm confused,
Several months ago, when I made changes to the name servers for the domains it took 12hours or more for them to be active, but now it's instant, how come?

Is it just me or something happened?

Thanks

The internet is getting more and more efficient every day :) It is indeed super-fast nowadays.

Its been instant for a while with namecheap

I even got my Name Server to update immediatly with them

Back in 1995 you could submit a request to modify your name servers and still know you have 2-3 days to continue working on the site because it won't be up anyway :) lol

yep very fast those days, really cool :glugglug

LOL not even in 95...1 or 2 years ago...it was at least 24h....now it's like 1 or 2 mins! :Graucho

yep, varies from like 2-10 mins depending on your registrar. pretty sweet.

verisign changed this 2 or so months ago
95% of your traffic gets rerouted within minutes at most

some registrars have not updated when they send in the changes to the registry and in those cases it takes about 12 hours, but this is rare.

thats pretty phat. I thought it still took like 2-3 days. :glugglug

:thumbsup

i know one problem i have is my dns on my isp not updating or whatever...sometimes it doesnt show up for a few hours mabye a day.

Thats strange, I have my domain with Network Solutions and it always takes overnight.

That's sweet... I thought I just got lucky, noticed it was pretty quick the other day when I changed some stuff around.

its instant at NSI now
problem might be at your local ISP

Here's why:

First, remember that the DNS system that converts the IP address of your server into an alphabetic name is actually it's own network. If one DNS server doesn't know how to translate a particular domain, it asks another one, and so on until the correct IP address is returned.


The .com registry has "root" servers. Basically, a place that lists each domain. Prior to September of this year, these root servers updated themselves in batches every few hours, not immediately.

Now, the .com registry adds records dynamically and thus, a domain name becomes operational immediately.

The caveat is that some 3rd party registrars (usually the cheap ones) still process their DNS records in batches to save on processing and bandwidth costs.


I hope that this helps,
Rob from Sinxstar Hosting


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Yep its great