Warning: Your DNS records have changed — how to troubleshoot?

  • Resolved cag8f

    (@cag8f)


    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hello. I am building a site locally (URL: https://example.test), and pushing those edits (all files and databsase edits) to a live server (URL: https://example.com)
    I described this setup in this previous post. I have Wordfence installed on both. For the site on the live server, in my email notifications, it has now indicated several times a warning of:

    Warnings:
    * Your DNS records have changed

    How can I get more information about this to assess its validity?

    Come to think of it, for some reason, I don’t receive any email notifications pertaining to the local site (https://example.test). I only receive email notifications pertaining to my live site (https://example.com). Not sure if that’s related or not.

    Thanks.

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  • Hi @cag8f,

    My previous post to that thread was incorrect. There are three more rows within the database that should be updated to match the correct settings of your live server.

    The three rows are within wp_wfconfig where name is wf_dnsCNAME, wf_dnsA, and wf_dnsMX.

    You can run this query to see the three values:

    SELECT name, val FROM wp_wfconfig WHERE name IN ("wf_dnsCNAME", "wf_dnsA", "wf_dnsMX");

    —

    To answer your other question, your email MX server may not be setup properly on your test site.

    Dave

    Thread Starter cag8f

    (@cag8f)

    OK thanks for that. What will be the consequences on my live site if I do not run the query to set those three values? Is the only consequence the fact that the email notification will indicate “Your DNS records have changed?” Or will there be more important problems with Wordfence functionality?

    The only thing dns records are used for in Wordfence is detecting when they are changed.

    So the only consequence is the email notifications (and from scan results).

    Dave

    Thread Starter cag8f

    (@cag8f)

    OK then, that’s a relief to hear. I’ll then pass on the DB edits–I can certainly live with these spurious DNS notifications for now.

    >> To answer your other question, your email MX server may not be setup properly on your test site.

    OK thanks, I’ll look into that if I have time.

    We can consider this resolved.

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