Moving Website with minimal interuption

[Doug Barton]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, ppppp wrote:

> We are going to change service providers for our website, we host our own
> DNS. What is the best plan of attack so that our site is still reachable via
> the internet with minimum down time. we will have new ip addresses from the
> new isp. can one keep the old dns settings while letting the new ones
> propagate?

	Your best plan of attack is to shorten your TTL values now. Then
when you do the move you can leave both sites up for roughly twice your
TTL period, after which you should be able to take the old site down
safely. 

Good luck,

Doug
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