Re: [cobalt-users] Network IP down and trying to change Virt Sites to new IP

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 01 November 2002 16:54, Ian wrote:
> Hi Gerald,
>
> > > One of our IP addresses is not working and we can get no answer from
> > > the network providers.
> > >
> > > So, logged into the machine via an SSHd connection and went into
> > > httpd.conf and altered all of the affected sites to a different IP
> > > address that we have on the RaQ4r.
> >
> > They are in the postgre db not in httpd.conf
> > Change them in the GUI
>
> Unfortunately, I can not get through using the GUI, or rather I have once,
> but can not now. We referenced our images for the GUI (customised) using
> http to a site which is on the same IP address. So the site settings never
> comes in because it is constantly trying to get theimages and cant (I know
> this is something that I will have to get sorted out so they are relative
> in the future).
>
> I did however, manage to get into one of the Virt sites that is used for
> the images and changed the IP in the GUI, and then did the DNS for the new
> IP, but it is taking ages to come through.
>
> Any suggestions to speed up the DNS alterations so they appear alot sooner.
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>

Edit the SOA records
Set TTL real low, but even that may take 24 hours.

Gerald
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