Hi. I have DNS and SMTP servers running on a machine connected to the internet, and I'm changing ISPs today... so I need to change the IP of this machine. I think my real problem is with the DNS server..
The DNS server is the repository the info of a couple domains. The DNS servers at a (third, unrelated) ISP provides the actual authoritative DNS service (these servers are named by the registrar) but they query my machine for information updates. I really like this setup, but the problems involved with changing ISPs makes me question the practicality. My DNS server names the MX records for my domains. Which means, the SMTP servers will have some down-time while the cached DNS records out there get updated. This is bad, but I think unavoidable. This whole difficulty has me thinking it would be worth the while and cost to move these services off my little server and to some hosting company. I do not have time to do this now, so I have to deal with this little mess myself. ---------------------------------------------------- This has me wishing for a way to give a machine two default routes. One would have a higher priority than the other for outgoing connections, but incoming connections would be handled for their duration on the device that originally accepted the connection. It seems like this should be a possibility, but I have never heard of a setup like this. Is it possible? If this is not possible then I just have to bite the bullet and accept some down-time... I think. Unless anyone of you has an idea. I'd love to hear it. :) Thanks, - Anna _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list RLUG@rlug.org http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
