I've seen it take upto 3 days for it to full propogate, but its normally done within a 48 hour window. Mark Fugatt On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:14:14 -0700, Stephen F. Herrera wrote > http://www.MSExchange.org/ > > Over the last 2 weeks I have implemented Exchange 2000 Server here. > The first week I converted our out Microsoft mail system to Exchange > and this week I got the internet portion setup including changing > our MX record so that we are hosting our own mail. The MX record was > changed on Tuesday. We are getting some email but not nearly as much > as before. If I send to my email address from a yahoo account I get > it right away. If I send from a hotmail account I never see it. I > was thinking this was just DNS taking a while to propagate out but 3 > days seems a bit long. About how long does it take before records > should propagate fully? > > Steve > > ------------------------------------------------------ > List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist > Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp > Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ > ------------------------------------------------------ > Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: > Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com > No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org > Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ > Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ > Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com > ------------------------------------------------------ Mark Fugatt MCT, MCSE, Microsoft Exchange MVP Pentech Office Solutions Inc Rochester, NY Tel: 585 586 3890 Fax: 585 249 0316 www.4mcts.com