DNS MX settings not propagating

Hello,

The MX records are not created in the Route 53 hosted zone associated with domain, as we can see in dig output no answer is returned.

$ dig swartztrailer.com MX
; <<>> DiG 9.11.18 <<>> swartztrailer.com MX
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40101
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;swartztrailer.com. IN MX
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
swartztrailer.com. 300 IN SOA ns-1410.awsdns-48.org. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400

Make sure you create the MX record in the hosted zone associated with the AWS NS (below) you specified in the domain registration.

$ dig swartztrailer.com NS +short
ns-1410.awsdns-48.org.
ns-1680.awsdns-18.co.uk.
ns-412.awsdns-51.com.
ns-953.awsdns-55.net.

You can refer to instructions mentioned in this post - https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=978618

As far as I know, I did. I created the record as follows in Route 53:

Domain name: swartztrailer.com
Type: Public Created by: Route 53
Record count: 4
Description: -
Hosted zone ID: Z07035111EILH7AXWJ70F

When I click into the domain link above it shows the record I entered:

Record name: swartztrailer.com
Type: MX
Routing policy: Simple Differentiator -
Value/Route traffic to: 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
10 ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
10 ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
15 ******************************.mx-verification.google.com.

I'm using godaddy, and I don't see any place to add an MX record. It tells me the domain is managed by AWS.

I think it might be due to the fact that Route 53 has it's own nameservers for the created hosted zone. The ones I entered were before I started using Route 53. I'm going to change them now and see if that works. See step 7:1 here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/migrate-dns-domain-in-use.html

EDIT: Yep. That was the problem.

Edited by: Swartz on Mar 25, 2021 6:46 AM

I needed to change my Nameservers to the ones listed in the Route 53 hosted zone (click arrow to expand top bar).