moving sites

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Oct 18 15:17:28 UTC 1999


In article <3807fbf4.0 at news3.paonline.com>,
Andrew Kaplan <noc at cshore.com> wrote:
>My company might be purchasing a web hosting company out of state. We need
>to plan a way to move the sites (travel time is over 6 hours) from point A
>to point B. We need to move over 600 sites. and  will be using new ip
>addresses.
>
>Step 1. Change the TTL values to 60 minutes. Wait a week for the changes to
>fully propogate.
>
>Step 2.   Copy data to "temp" servers. With new ip addresses. Move temp
>servers to new location.
>
>Step 3.   Change IP addresses on primary DNS server to new addresses.
>
>Step 4.   Setup New DNS server on new block of IP addresses. Register new
>nameserver, submit global modify.
>
>Will this work. Can anyone suggest a better method.

Sounds fine to me.

Didn't someone ask a very similar question last week?  It might have been
in comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains rather than this group, but he put forth a
similar plan and I gave about the same response.

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