RE: [cobalt-users] IP Change

[elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, John M Troher wrote:

} what you are describing sounds like bad proxy servers in
} action. I have recently done this with about 200 domains
} from a hacked server to a fresh (non-cobalt) server. we
} also tested from aol, earthlink, msn, and prodigy and all
} updates where handled perfectly using 5 minute ttl's.

We do this regularly here and have no problems at all either. We do
use a one minute TTL when we're switching, I'll usually set it up
a good week in advance, and I always do the swap in the wee hours
of the slowest traffic day of the week but we're never had a blip of
a problem. I swapped one just a couple of weeks ago on which the
site owner has a good dozen of those uptime monitoring services
watching his site. And I did so after preparing to respond to the
complaints that I knew would arrive. Nothing happened and, as it
turns out, the site owner was working on the site at the time
(the index.html page changed between the time I changed the zone
file and pulled the site up in a browser to if the change had
occured) and even he didn't notice - and he's in Italy, we're in
Colorado.

	brent