DNS zone frozen after IP-range migration: records in dashboard but NODATA from nameservers

Domain: challengersranking.online (team: bernies-projects-445586a2, Hobby plan, Vercel nameservers ns1/ns2.vercel-dns.com)

Summary: No DNS record changes made today are being published to the nameservers, even though they appear correctly in the dashboard. The zone appears frozen since the recent IP-range migration.

Details:

  1. Several hours ago I added at the apex: two MX records (mx1.forwardemail.net priority 10, mx2.forwardemail.net priority 20) and one TXT record (forward-email=…). All three show correctly in the DNS Records dashboard.

  2. Vercel’s support AI agent checked the backend database and confirmed all three records are present under my team scope.

  3. However, ns1/ns2.vercel-dns.com return NODATA for apex MX and TXT queries. Verified via multiple independent public resolvers (Google DoH, AliDNS) with fresh, uncached queries.

  4. To isolate the issue, I added a test TXT record at a subdomain (probe.challengersranking.online) — it is NOT published either. So this is not apex-specific: no record changes propagate at all.

  5. Records created before the migration still resolve fine (e.g. send.challengersranking.online TXT/MX from May 6, and the apex A record). The SOA serial returned by the nameservers appears stuck at a pre-migration value (1777921410).

  6. The domain shows the “DNS Change Recommended” banner (planned IP range expansion, A → 216.198.79.1), which is why I believe the zone sync got stuck during that migration.

  7. The Hobby plan support flow routes DNS Configuration cases to this community, hence this post.

Request: please trigger a manual re-sync / re-publish of the DNS zone for challengersranking.online. Happy to provide dig outputs or any other diagnostics. Thanks!

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resolved — zone is publishing now