A mail delivery puzzle

[nmeyers at javalinux.net (Nathan Meyers)]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:54:53AM -0400, Bill Horne wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nathan Meyers" <nmeyers at javalinux.net>
> 
> > All DNS servers cache recent lookups. Attbi might have done a recent
> > lookup, or consulted another server that did. It usually takes a couple
> > of days for old caches to completely clear out of the network.
> 
> Nathan,
> 
> I'm still puzzled: this was a new entry, with no previous information. Since
> any previous lookups would have failed, what was there to cache?

What was a new entry? All the domain records, or just the MX record? My
lookup last night found records about the domain that didn't reflect
the MX stuff you added, so I doubt that everything is new.

Nathan