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Re: [cobalt-users] Moving DNS

>At 01:32 PM 5/25/2003, you wrote:
>>I'm moving my DNS machines from one data-center to another - I've setup DNS, copied across my /etc/named/records and gone into the GUI and "Saved changes", then saved changes within the control panel - on all machines, I've changed references for ns3 and ns4 to be the IPs allocated to them in their new location - now I'm serving DNS from the new nameservers, and all my machines know that the services are on the new machines - how do the gtld nameservers get updated?
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>>The output from dnsreport.com shows that the gtld nameservers have a TTL of 172,800 seconds - ie, 48 hours - does that mean I have to wait 48 hours for it to refresh?  Is there a way to speed this up?
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>>tia
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>>Greg Hewitt-Long
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>>(I have to do this again with another set of nameservers, but I don't want to attempt it until I have the ns3/ns4 pair moved across successfully.
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>Pretty much you do have to wait.  Not all nameservers update at the same time, so they should be update in 48 hours.
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>Before you do you next ones, a few days in advance, go in and change the times to about 1 hour.  Then a few days later, make you changes and they should be updating within an hour.
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How do I change the TTL on the gtld servers?  Mine are already set at 15 minutes for this move!

regards

Greg H-L
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