DNS problem - Deleted entire zone

[TechBoyJK]

I have a domain with what I think is a corrupted zone.

Either way, I wanted to delete the entire zone completely from the nameservers, let a few days go by to clear any caching servers, then rebuild the zone.

5 days later, zones are gone, but the domain is still resolving around the internet..

Whats up with that? I figured dns entries would clear and it wouldnt resolve.

 

[Nothinman]

If you query those DNS servers directly for the zone does it work? If so then you need to figure out why they still have the zone loaded.

 

[spidey07]

Also what was the time to live on the zone and any records? The records are probably not dead yet.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Also what was the time to live on the zone and any records? The records are probably not dead yet.

TTL was 60 minutes. I was making alot of changes, experimenting, etc.

zone file is completely gone from both ns1 and ns2

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: spidey07
Also what was the time to live on the zone and any records? The records are probably not dead yet.

TTL was 60 minutes. I was making alot of changes, experimenting, etc.

zone file is completely gone from both ns1 and ns2

Did you reboot the DNS services?

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: Crusty

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: spidey07
Also what was the time to live on the zone and any records? The records are probably not dead yet.

TTL was 60 minutes. I was making alot of changes, experimenting, etc.

zone file is completely gone from both ns1 and ns2

Did you reboot the DNS services?

I don't have access to that. There's probably several hundred thousand dns entries on it.

 

[Crusty]

Without knowing any kind of information regarding what DNS server you are using nobody can really help, talk to the person who has admin over the DNS servers and get them to fix it.

 

[heymrdj]

The config is probably changed, but without a DNS reboot the new configuration hasn't taken over. You need to get them to apply the new configuration, within 60min or less you should have a dead domain (for me it's normally much much faster than that seeing as I run BIND on the server itself, but if your ISP cache's DNS results for long periods of time, this can give the allusion the domain isn't being let go).