On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Alan wrote: > Looking up my server on that root DNS server (host ufies.org > tld2.ultradns.net) gives me the old IP, not the new one. According the > the above URL it sounds like you can force the TTL to decrement, and > eventually time out and get it's information from the main DNS servers > for my domain, but that doesn't seem to work.
Here's the funny part about decreasing TTL - you have to wait for the old TTL to expire for the server to pick up the new TTL. So until your old TTL expires, it won't pick up the new record, including the new TTL. For domain migrations, it's recommended that you decrease your TTL way before the actual migration - I've heard (2*TTL) as a good number. So if your TTL is eight days, you should decrease your TTL 16 days before migration. At that point, you should drop it to 24 hours or less, depending on your migration strategy. Your authoritative TTL appears to be 172800 seconds, or two days. So two days after its' last refresh, the root nameserver should pick up your changes. -------Patrick M [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3784715------ Quote of the Week: "I probably won't start on the idea, and if I do it will wind up being an unfinished project on my personal website featuring pictures of my cat." rh2600 on /. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
