Search Again: Re: DOH! From: Claude Errera Date: Thursday, January 24, 2002 Time: 11:38:31 am Recently, Global Homes Webmaster wrote: >On 01/24/02 at 07:51, Claude Errera wrote: > >> Good lord - it never ends. >> >> The saga so far: When I moved subnets, my registrar didn't pick up >> on the change (nor did they offer me the option to change myself). >> Calling them on an unorthodox line got a person willing to put the >> IP address changes through for the two nameservers. >> >> The good news: nsiregistry.com is seeing the new addresses already: >> >> ><http://www.nsiregistry.com/cgi-bin/whois?whois_nic=ns1.smallbits.com&type=nameserver> >> ><http://www.nsiregistry.com/cgi-bin/whois?whois_nic=ns2.smallbits.com&type=nameserver> >> >> The bad news: She reversed the two addresses. :( >> >> (That is - she's got ns1 listed as .195, and ns2 listed as .194 - my >> designations are the other way.) >> >> I can't simply switch the two servers (well, I guess I can, but not >> without headaches) - ns1 acts also as a webserver, and hosts a number of >> domains. They all disappear for a couple of days if I move numbers around. >> >> On the other hand, they're gonna have major problems ANYWAY, as soon as >> these changes propagate. >> >> What's my best plan of action at this point, given the hassles incurred >> getting here? Should I live with the numbers as she listed them, or should >> I call back and try to get them to swap them? >> >> Thanks again for any help... > >Why not just leave things as they are and simply swap the A and PTR records >for ns1 and ns2? I.e. change the A records so that ns1 points to .195 and ns2 >points to .194? It really shouldn't matter functionally as long as both >servers answer authoritatively for the zones delegated to them. There's no >distinction to outside resolvers as to which server is master and which is >slave. This is what I did - but as I said, ns1 also acts as a webserver; changing the address for this means that until the new address propagates, any sites served by it will be unreachable. :( (For a couple of days, sites that WERE seeing ns1 at .194 will now find no webserver at that address. Sites that were looking for ns1 at the old address won't notice the change, I suppose. :) ) Sometimes you just can't win... -- Claude errera@bungie.org

Messages In This Thread: DOH! by Claude Errera on Jan 24, 2002 at 4:52:30 am Re: DOH! by Global Homes Webmaster on Jan 24, 2002 at 10:40:02 am Re: DOH! by Claude Errera on Jan 24, 2002 at 11:38:31 am Re: DOH! by Global Homes Webmaster on Jan 24, 2002 at 12:15:28 pm Re: DOH! by Claude Errera on Jan 24, 2002 at 12:19:59 pm Re: DOH! by Global Homes Webmaster on Jan 24, 2002 at 12:37:39 pm Re: DOH! by Claude Errera on Jan 24, 2002 at 12:45:25 pm Re: DOH! by Global Homes Webmaster on Jan 24, 2002 at 1:05:31 pm