Search Again: Re:DNS advice From: Aron S. Spencer Date: Tuesday, December 31, 1996 Time: 6:15:00 pm At 09:01 AM -0800 12/31/96, Chris Vargas altered the fabric of cyberspace, writing: > My company has been serving the Mac Users of Delaware web site, and we're > the primary DNS for it as well. I had been using the trial version of > MultiHome to simulate multihoming, which required that I use a separate > IP number (208.0.34.100) for serving www.mudel.org off of the same web > server as www.mmg.com. > > Now, I'm switching to MultiHomie with WebSTAR 2.0, which requires me to > set the IP number to the same as the main web site's IP (208.0.34.66). I > changed mudel.org's info in QuickDNS and updated the serial# setting. > However, of course, the Net's DNSes haven't been updated yet and the one > I'm currently using (not MMG) is still trying to send me to 208.0.34.100. > > I used DigIt to look at mudel.org, and it does show that the correct IP > number is in there, although I don't think it showed the correct serial#. > > What can I adjust to speed up the propagation of the "new" IP number > through the net? I know there are time-to-live settings and such; I just > didn't want to change anything that would do bad things. I guess it's a > situation where I can adjust it temporarily. > > Thanks for the advice. Hope there's still folk reading this mailing list, > even on New Year's Eve... > Did you mean HomeDoor? MultiHome does not use separate IP addresses... In any case, you can use HomeDoor and Multihomie (or Pardeike's Welcome) simultaneously, until the new information propogates. Remember it's not only routing tables, but search engines that need to be updated; many of the search engines store IP #s for some reason, and many also do not use the proper referrer tags when indexing sites; hence they may keep sending people to the wrong location long after things have been changed. _________________________________________________________________________ We cure your phobias...Call us about Information Anxiety! If you're suffering from Information Overload setting up your company's internet and intranet, we can help you avoid the headaches. "7 Habits of Internet-Savvy Companies" available FREE! <http://www.r8ix.com/7Habits.html> _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_

Messages In This Thread: Re:DNS advice by Aron S. Spencer on Dec 31, 1996 at 6:15:00 pm