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I am having this insane problem. We are Mac heavy users. Around 10 workstations, one Xserve server, two Windows workstation and one Linux (me). Last year I added an A record to our domain's DNS. However we had to change that a few months ago to a new IP. But all the Mac workstations fail to resolve the proper DNS and they still resolve to the old IP, even after 2 months.

On both the Windows workstation and my Linux box a simple nslookup resolves to proper IP. However, on ALL the Mac workstation, dig and nslookup report the old IP address.

From my linux workstation:

jp@lo:~$ nslookup - 208.67.222.222

client.xyz.com

Server: 208.67.222.222

Address: 208.67.222.222#53

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: client.xyz.com

Address: 68.71.40.xx

But when I am trying the exact same command from any Mac workstation, I get the old IP:

$ nslookup - 208.67.222.222

client.xyz.com

Server: 208.67.222.222

Address: 208.67.222.222#53

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: client.xyz.com

Address: 98.143.155.xx

The strange thing is that this only happens in our internal network. No problem from home nor from another server. I did try to flush the DNS, don't worry. It did not help.

I am starting to wonder if my router (OpenWRT) or Mac OS X Server is not in some way spoofing the DNS request and thus acting as a cache.

Any suggestions/comments would be grateful. Thank you, JP

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  • Some OpenWRT boxes I have seen run dnsmasq which does proxy, but if you specify the DNS server explicitly I've never seen this behavior. – Alexander T Apr 02 '10 at 17:36

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  • What version(s) of Mac OS X?
  • What do their DNS settings in "System Preferences > Network > $INTERFACE > Advanced > DNS" show? It'll be interesting to know what DNS server address(es) they show, and if it's manually configured (black) or if they're getting it from DHCP (grey)
  • If they're using DHCP, what does ipconfig getpacket en0 show? (Replace en0 with the designator of the interface they're connecting with.) This will show which DNS servers your DHCP server is telling that Mac to use.
  • What does cat /etc/resolv.conf say?
  • What does cat /etc/hosts say?
  • Am I correct to assume you rebooted the Macs and the problem persisted?
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