DNS migration and folks that don't play nice

[Mark Komarinski]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:04:53AM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> 
> Preface - 
> 
> The folks on the sys-admin list are talking about the migration of
> services from the older server to the newer server.  Of course, one of
> the issues that's come up is DNS.  This led to the following snippet:
> 
> On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 09:04 -0400, wrote:
> > > Well, there's at least one easy workaround for that, aside from the
> > > obvious (shorten TTL ahead of time, to force fast propagation).

When we change a host's IP address, we drop the TTL to 300 seconds a 
few days before, make the change, then raise it back up to 1 day.  We 
don't have many AOL users, but so far haven't had any complaints from 
users that they can't reach the site or hit the wrong site.

-Mark
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