North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: BGP announcements and small providers
>Uhm, sure. Just slowly decrease the TTL on your name server until you are >ready to renumber (and the TTL is set to something ridiculously low such as >1 minute). The customers will then experience something like a 1 minute >outage when you renumber. If we are going to start getting into the >procedures of HOW to renumber this should likely move to the PIER mailing >list. I think if in general people become more interested in HOW to >gracefully renumber themselves and their customers instead of worrying >about how hard it is to do they would see that while it is work, it isn't >really all that hard. > Why don't you slowly decrease the TTL on your name server until you're ready to renumber. Configure your web server bind to the old address(es) and new address(es). Re-number in the DNS, and your customers will experience something like no down time. Then put the TTL back to where it normally is. -Christopher - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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