Re: Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server

[Joe Abley <jabley () isc org>]

On 14-Dec-2005, at 11:52, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:

>         currently in the middle of such a safe, conservative
>         transition leads me to believe that there will -NEVER-
>         be a point w/ there are no queries to the old address.
>         (he says, 24 months into a transition...)

It's probably reasonable to say that there are more historical  
instances of B's address being hard-coded than there are for Eric's  
authority server, though (and I'm guessing that he also doesn't have  
to answer priming queries :-)

>         The right
>         tactic is to make the change, based on 2x the TTL of the SOA.


Joe