I have been setting up my domain name(s) and redirection in the past few days. This process is frustrating for me, a starter for the speed of
DNS record propagation in the web which might take up to 48 hrs. Basically main name servers around the world will update their records with each other. And my default DNS server which is provided by my ISP might not have a updated record of my zone file and this delays my testing.
I used Windows to do most of my development and I found a good use of its
nslookup command to speed up this process by designating the
nameserver to the one hosting my zone file using this command
nslookup -d <your_domain_name> <your_nameserver_url>
(the "-d" is optional and with it the command returns more details.)
For example, I used GoDaddy to host my domain zone files and my updated zone file lives on ns65.domaincontrol.com (and ns66.domaincontrol.com) as indicated in the screenshot:
For more info on nslookup on Microsoft Support: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/200525
