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Re: [cobalt-users] New IP Block - what the best way to add these

>GH> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:26:14 -0600
>GH> From: Greg Hewitt-Long
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>GH> Impossible - if they change the IPs on you, and you disable
>GH> the old IPs and replace with new ones, your customers/sites
>GH> *WILL* experience downtime.
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>Wrong.  One can renumber with ZERO downtime.  Been there, done
>that.  Doing it again next week.



Then post the solution to this poor guys problem.  His method *WILL* result in downtime.

I'm REALLY interested in how you persuade all the larger ISPs around the world who cache your DNS records to release them... *REALLY* interested.

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>GH> You need to tell your provider that this "change" is TOTALLY
>GH> unacceptable.
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>Tell it to ARIN.  If you hate renumbering a few servers here and
>there, do you think providers enjoy having to redo entire
>networks?


I've never had to do it - like I said, I'd REALLY like to know how it's done without affecting site visibility, and by the sounds of it, the OP only has ONE box... the options are getting slimmer... if both sets of IPs can be run concurrently on two separate boxes, it's a piece of cake.

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>Eddy

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