The TTL is the Time-To-Live of the DNS information from your DNS servers, it means how long the information remains valid before the DNS server requesting the info will consider old and request new info. If you drop your TTL's to like 60 minutes a few days before the move, then name servers around the net will start to have the 60 min TTL's in cache and request a new ip within an hour. Essentially, once the move takes place, you'd only have an hour of time with old ip info around the net. Once the move is complete, change your TTL back to 24 hours or whatever your default value is...
> I don't exactly understand what you mean. > > > > Sounds great! Would not lowering the ttl values on the domain for the > > few days preceding the move stop any dns outages from occuring in the > > first place? > > > > jon > > > > Michael Dinowitz wrote: > > > > >CFHosting.com, a major supporter of the House of Fusion lists and the > host of our box will be moving said box to a new location (with higher > bandwidth). This will result in an outage of mail for a few hours today > (Sunday Sept. 30) and will probably result in some small DNS problems in the > next 2 or 3 days as it propagates. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
