From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 10:12: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87AB537B401 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:12:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37DF43FBF for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:12:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from pursued-with.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id h1KIC4Av015793; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:12:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from 192.85.47.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user imap) by new.host.name with HTTP; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:12:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <25236.192.85.47.2.1045764724.squirrel@new.host.name> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:12:04 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: IP-change From: "Kevin Stevens" To: In-Reply-To: References: <200302190943.H1J9HV5D037909@asarian-host.net> <20030219165810.GE16096@gothmog.gr> <200302200430.H1K4UE5D071599@asarian-host.net> <20030220131117.GA787@gothmog.gr> <200302201348.H1KDMRTA007172@asarian-host.net> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: Reply-To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Most of the times, when you make a DNS change, it may take up 24 hours > to replicate to all other servers. > And during that time is when, you wonder if it's gonna work or not. On > top of that your carrier may not refresh it's list every 6 to 12 hours. > I had to talk to a supervisor to have AT&T do the refresh it right away. If you know in advance that you'll be changing, you can adjust the expiration times in the zone so that servers around the net won't cache the old IP for very long. This greatly facilitates convergence on the new IP. Don't forget to change it back to avoid unnecessary traffic. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message