Re: Failover internet connections, and implementation...

[jam () zoidtechnologies com]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:05:44PM -0700, David Gillett wrote:
>   Neither of these will work if you host the company's Internet-
> facing servers (web, email) on the network, because DNS entries
> (cached all over the place) will still be pointing at your primary
> addresses.

you can change the zone file so that it has a much shorter timeout-- that
way if there is an outage and you need to change the zone you can do it with
minimal delay... change it from 3 days down to 30 minutes, for example, and
your changes should propagate much quicker.

> David Gillett

regards,
J
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