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At 3:45 PM -0500 6/13/03, Len Conrad wrote:
Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming....
From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Time: 3:44:46 pm
>>We are currently completing the renumbering process, ie.,
>>renumbering out of over 8,000 IP addresses. Talk about a lot of
>>work, yes it is.
>>However there are ways to do things such the you maintain
>>reachability and minimal down time. The key is keeping both
>>connections/IP ranges up during the change.
>
>that's the best case, if you can swing it.
>
>Apart the actual typing, the other key DNS param it TTL: coming up
>to switch over, make it short, then after the switch, back to
>normal.
>
>aggressive, creative use of $INCLUDE in zone files, and tricks like
>shared zones file can greatly reduce the number of records that have
>to changed and maintained.
>
>But that takes foresight, not hindsight.
>
>But since re-numbering forces you to hit every zone file, that's the
>opportunity to use $INCLUDE.
Ah, but we're talking about QuickDNS in this forum.
QuickDNS has minimal support for $includes. As for shared zone files,
this is in the feature request database - I put it there after you
explained it to me, because it's a good idea.
____________________________________________________________________
Chris Buxton Men & Mice
Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy
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