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Hot take: spending 4 hours on a simple DNS change is ridiculous
I was setting up a subdomain for a client site last Tuesday and it took me forever to figure out why it wouldn't resolve. Everyone online says to just wait 24-48 hours for propagation but that's not always the issue. Turned out my registrar had a hidden A record from years ago that was overriding my new CNAME. Spent 3 hours digging through old settings before I found it. Anyone else run into phantom records like that?
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river_hall4412d ago
Yeah TTL overrides are always the sneaky culprit in those old panels.
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wendy7211d ago
Wait, TTL overrides in the old panels? Those things are ancient. I had no idea they even had that feature built in. I always figured those old boards were just dumb switches and wires, no smarts at all. That sounds like such a headache to track down. Like, you'd be chasing a ghost, thinking it's a wiring fault. Honestly, that explains so many frustrating service calls I've heard about. Crazy how those little settings hide in plain sight for years.
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