How long should it take for a new site to migrate?

It's been over a week

[webwoman]

I have a client whose site I recently redesigned. His old site was hosted at Yahoo. Because his plan did not accomodate certain forms he wanted, I suggested he move to a new host who I use often and has been wonderful service- wise. He wouldn't let me do it for him (is learning and wants to do things on his own). Y sent him an email that was designed to scare him re; leaving them, and he prematurely cancelled the account - so his old site went down within an hour - along with his email.

I have checked many times at many whois centers to see that his nameservers are pointing to the right place. They are. It's been a week now and the new site has not propagated yet. I think there is nothing I can do but wait -is this true?

[glengara]

Back in March I changed hosts, and between the jigs and the reels, it took G about 6 weeks to cache my very slightly modified index page.
These days though, who can tell?

[webwoman]

I'm talking about getting indexed or cached - just for the site to show up at all when you type in the domain name!

[jamesa]

Ping the domain... from the shell or DOS prompt type 'ping domainname.com' (without the quotes). That'll show you, among other things, what IP address it's resolving to. If it resolves to the new IP address then have your new host check their DNS settings - could be misconfigured. I'm betting this is the problem.

But if it is still resolving to the old host, then check the TTL (time to live). Easiest way is go to dnsstuff.com, top of right column "DNS Lookup" enter the domain name, select SOA from the pulldown menu, click Lookup. The forth column of the results is the TTL. That's how many seconds it will take before name servers will update their caches. Usually it's around 24 hours (86400 seconds), translating into a two+ day propagation period. If it's much longer then that could be the reason.

[webwoman]

Thanks, what I get is :

Error: It looks like you've stuck me in a loop!.
after 20 searches. The old host took the site down, but the loop it appears to be stuck in is at yahoo. The domain name does not resolve either to the old host or the new host.