MX records taking a long time to propagate.

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I am trying to implement Google Apps for a new domain of mine, and although Google says it can take up to 48 hours, it is normally much quicker than that, and other DNS changes, such as creating the domain alias, normally take less than 1 hour to propogate. The domain I'm trying to set up Google Apps for is an alias of an existing domain - let me explain:

I have mainDomain.com, and this is the name of my domain account on my host, which I cannot change. However, that domain name has expired and is no longer available, so I create a domain alias on the host called aliasDomain.co.za, and choose not to use the main domain DNS. I then set all the MX records, as documented by Google, on aliasDomain.co.za, but it's been about 12 hours with no joy yet.

I suppose I should wait the 48 hours, but if my DNS is wrong, it could be another 48 hours to see if I did fix it. Should what I'm doing work normally, or should I be doing something else? Do MX records normally take much longer that A records?

Posted 28-Jul-11 10:29am

Brady Kelly

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SomeGuyThatIsMe · Answer 1 · 2011-07-28T16:39:00

The time it takes usually is based on how far away you are from the server, i.e. updates on my dns server are usually seen almost immediatly(i've also had it take several hours), but changes i make on godaddy take a couple hours for me to see. If you need to see it right now for testing you can add an entry into your hosts file, if you're runnin windows, and specify the domain and the ip. I'm sure other OS's have their own version of the hosts file, but i've only messed with it on windows.