I think they may have done this as the server was up and running very fast. The delay in mail was actually a small internal issue with the IP rather than the domain name.
At 10:28 AM 10/1/01, you wrote: >Furthermore, a couple of hours prior to the move, drop it to 5 minutes and >you should experience virtually no downtime and no propogation delays. The >exception to this will be networks that don't honor the TTL in your DNS >settings. This, however, only affects users who use that network's DNS and >mail servers. Everyone else shouldn't even notice a hiccup. > >Another thing to consider is to have a secondary email server to catch >incoming messages to your domains. That mail server doesn't have any >mailboxes or listservers for your domains, it simply forwards any messages >that it receives to your working mail server. This keeps you from losing >any incoming messages that might otherwise go undelivered during network >outages or machine downtime. You wouldn't have to operate or manage this >server... secondary mail service is often offered as a service by your ISP, >or you can arrange with a colleague to have his mail server act as a >secondary for your domains. > >Set it up in your DNS with the 'real' mail server having a higher MX >priority. That mail server will always be tried first and the secondary >tried only if a connection with the first fails. > >houseoffusion.com A 64.118.64.245 > > MX 10 houseoffusion.com. > MX 20 mail.cfhosting.com. > >www CNAME houseoffusion.com. > > >Jim > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tony Schreiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 8:53 PM >Subject: Re: (Admin) Machine move > > > > 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
