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Re: Hurrying domain changes through system

From: Neil Ticktin
Date: Wednesday, October 7, 1998
Time: 3:01:00 pm

At 12:05 PM +0100 10/7/98, Paul Willis wrote:
>I wonder if there is any way to quickly flush DNS detail changes through
>the Internet as a whole?
>
>I understand that the cacheing on other systems is controlled by the time
>to live on my QDNS server, so it would seem the only way is to set this
>really low a week or so before I make changes?

This is generally what we do. For massive changes (e.g., changing net providers and moving to a new address range), we pushed it down to 12-24 hours and then that many hours before the change, pushed it down to 1-4 hours. Once the changes were in place for a day, we bumped it back up.

Thanks,
Neil Ticktin
Publisher, MacTech Magazine
Publisher, NetProfessional Magazine
CEO, Xplain Corporation



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