[thelist] DNS Help

[Scott Harman]

Can't you run the two webservers concurrently?
i.e.
You are going to see a rather large delay on transfer - 
When you transfer, you can easily maintain all of the current CNAME, MX,
HOST records etc.  Just make sure they're all on the transfer notice.
But, simply change the new host record for www and leave the old server
running for a good two or three days after the transfer has been
actioned.

What you'll see is:
Old DNS host releases records on receipt of a transfer notice
New DNS host loads your records into their zone file
New Zone file gets loaded by the root servers
New zone file is propogated from root servers to all other dns servers
(more or less! ;) - keeping it simple)
>From first action to second can take a couple of weeks - everything
after that in my experience takes between 2 and 72 hours depending on
the hosts, and the reload/propogate schedule.

The only one I've had a serious problem with, was transferring from a
company who maintains their own DNS root servers - the girl who handled
it was on leave for two weeks at the time, delaying our site launch by
three weeks!  Simply because nobody would action the transfer without
her say so!

End of the day, it comes down to each person validating the information
they've rec'd in a timely manner, ticking all the boxes...
It takes time, so make sure you've got contingency in place.

Scotty

-----Original Message-----
From: Ashok Hariharan [mailto:listman at hazard0us.org] 
Sent: 01 August 2003 11:47
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] DNS Help


I am in the process of transferring a domain, but I've run into a doubt,
which I hope somebody can clear up for me.... (I am a complete moron on
this DNS thing...)

The domain is currently hosted by a particular registrar and 
points to a particular website (thru the DNS www entry) and
to specific mail servers (thru the DNS MX entry)...

Now we need to repoint the WWW entry without modifying
the MX entry (since the mail servers remain the same).

The new hosting provider, wants to host the DNS so they 
have asked me to do a domain transfer to them.  Does this
mean that only the DNS www entry gets transferred? Can 
I leave the MX entry with the registrar ?
I really want to be careful here as I dont want to ruin my 
customers email flow when the domain is being transferred...

thanks in advance

--Ashok 
http://unganisha.org





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