AWS Route 53 DNS propagation time [closed]

Question

About 5 hours ago I have created a new Hosted Zone in AWS Route 53 service. The records look like as follows:

Hosted Zone domain.com

domain.com.     A
domain.com.     MX   1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
                     5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
                     5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
                     10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
                     10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
domain.com.     NS   ns-1042.awsdns-02.org.
                     ns-996.awsdns-60.net.
                     ns-280.awsdns-35.com.
                     ns-1711.awsdns-21.co.uk.
domain.com.     SOA  ns-1042.awsdns-02.org.
                     awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400
www.domain.com. A    XX.XXX.XX.XXX

I have also updated domain records for my registrar to specify AWS DNS servers there.

The record A for domain.com. is empty because it is just an alias for www.domain.com. subdomain from the same Hosted Zone. So www.domain.com. referes to a real Elastic IP address.

The official AWS documentation says:

Question: How quickly will changes I make to my DNS settings on Amazon Route 53 propagate globally?

Amazon Route 53 is designed to propagate updates you make to your DNS records to its world-wide network of authoritative DNS servers within 60 seconds under normal conditions. Note that caching DNS resolvers are outside the control of the Amazon Route 53 service and will cache your resource record sets according to their time to live (TTL).

In my case DNS records have not been propagated yet after 5 hours. I see that AWS DNS servers have already updated the records. So nslookup shows Elastic IP address for my web service properly for ASW DNS servers. But, for example, google DNS still does not know it:

nslookup domain.com 8.8.8.8: can't find domain.com: NXDOMAIN

Could you say if I performed DNS setup wrong so that DNS records have not been propagated yet?

Answer 1

I ran into a similar issue. The Registar NS records for the domain need to be updated to match the NS records within the hosted zone.

See the following for answer for instructions and thorough description: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37534217/3895401

Answer 2

I believe domainname A record must point to the IP. and add an alias to www.

For my wordpress site, i point both domain and www A record to ip address.