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I own a domain name and have been using it for email, hosted through a friend's company, for the past years or so. I'm attempting to switch over to Google's hosting (Google Apps for your Domain) and have been at it most of this week, but things haven't switched over yet.
What I've done so far:
- Switched the primary DNS server from my friend's to my registrar's (000domains; I own & have primary control over the domain registration)
- Added the Google verification code to a TXT record
- Removed my friend's mail server from the MX record and added MX records for Google's server
I completed steps 1 & 2 the night of July 3rd, and Google picked up that change sometime overnight. At this point, I completed step 3, so we're now 48 hours post-change. Yet when I look up the MX record via dig (dig @fwns01.000domains.com MX DOMAIN
) I still get the MX records for my friend's server. I have verified (many times) in the 000domains control panel that the MX records are set up properly there.
I know that at some point the MX record should be removed from my friend's DNS server, but he's very slow to respond lately so this may take a few more days. I'm still getting email to the old server, so nothing is being lost, but I really want to get this finished. What else can I do, or what steps have I missed, to make this switch complete?
1Did you update the serial in the DNS record? I assume so (from your saying "Google picked up..."), but just to make sure. If changes are made to the zone file, the serial of it must be increased to have the changes propagated. Second, as you switched your primary to your registrars, and that one doesn't show the latest MX changes: where did you update the zone file? This must be done at the primary -- and that's the one not showing it. If you did update on the primary and increase the serial, contact the DNS admin, as the config has not been reloaded properly. – Izzy – 2012-07-06T11:15:27.110
No, I have not changed the serial. Google picked up the new TXT record but now I wonder if that happened after my current host did it, and it took him a day or so to tell me that he'd done it. I didn't do an official zone transfer, I just added the records through the registrar's DNS management interface.
I don't see a way to edit the serial there or load a zone transfer file, so I may have to contact support to find out how to do that. – alroc – 2012-07-06T12:48:02.343