Search Again: Re: Advice on switchover From: Albert Rodriguez Date: Friday, March 2, 2001 Time: 9:42:33 am hey robert, i've just experienced the same tragedy with connectsouth as you did. luckily for me my previous provider was still in the building and all the had to do was plug the line back into the hub. what i did was change my ns1 at network solutions to the new ip address first, when that updated in the public record then i changed all my machines to the new ip addresses, including ns1. everything went pretty smoothly, a little down time waiting for all the root servers to update, but once that happened (about 12 hours), things were fine. after that i changed ns2 at netsol. since ns2 pulls data from ns1 that transition was seamless. good luck. albert :-) "Robert J. Woodhead (AnimEigo)" wrote: > Thanks to the upcoming implosion of my SDSL provider (ConnectSouth), > I'm going to have to get new connectivity to the net ASAP. One > scenario is that my new provider (also SDSL) may be able to reuse the > current DSL line. However, if this happens, for 1 or 2 days I'll > have no connectivity and when I come back up, my IP addresses will be > different. There will be no time when I'm reachable via both old and > new IP address ranges, so I can't do the "keep the old dns server > running until everything updates" tweak to manage the switchover. > > What I think will work is basically just telling all my registrars > the new DNS server ip address, etc, just before the switchover. It > might be a wee bit tricky with the email-based netsol system, but I > figure that as long as I get the domain that runs the nameserver > swapped correctly (animeigo.com) any other screwups are fixable > without undue panic -- and since that one can be modified using a > web-form, there's no "they can't email me" problem. > > But, being paranoid, I figured I ought to ask "Have I forgotten > something?" Any gotchas? > > Thanks in advance,R > -- > =========================================================== > Robert Woodhead, CEO, AnimEigo http://www.animeigo.com/ > =========================================================== > http://selfpromotion.com/ The Net's only URL registration > SHARESERVICE. A power tool for power webmasters.

Messages In This Thread: Advice on switchover by Robert J. Woodhead (AnimEigo) on Mar 1, 2001 at 4:18:05 pm Re: Advice on switchover by Albert Rodriguez on Mar 2, 2001 at 9:42:33 am