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The server is up and is running a version of BC and it looks pretty good for moving the site tonight or tomorrow. The problem will again be propagating the domain so that bigclosetr.us/topshelf will take you to the right site. So, I'm going to set up a temporary URL that will take you to the new site if you can't reach it through the usual address.
Stay tuned for more info.
Hugs,
Erin
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Does the IP address change each time?
Can't you just give the new server the old one's IP address?
Curiously Yours with a Hug
Frank
Name servers...
Because the Internet is designed as a distributed and mostly self-healing service, local caches are kept of the locations of Internet addresses, so it can take a day (or sometimes more) for changes to propagate to the far corners of the Earth. Some users may see the changes appear almost instantaneously, where others may see them appear at mysterious intervals thereafter, depending upon how intermediate servers are set up.
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
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IP Sanity :)
I think part of the issue is that Erin plans to Keep the current server up and running along with the NEW NEW server so giving the NEW NEW server the NEW server's IP address would require giving the NEW server a new IP Address and sometimes just for the sake of sanity of the people doing all the moves and changes, it's just easier to RENUMBER things :) But as always, I could be wrong, so take my comments with a grain of salt :)
-P/KAF
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It can be simpler to change the IP address...
...as data is often cached locally as well, to speed up overall response time on the net. This results in people being fed old data for a while, again dependent upon the configurations of the servers one is close to.
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
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--- The Chicago Manual of Style
Change the IP address
Swapping the IP address between hardware boxes is easier and faster than waiting for a DNS change to trickle through but this trick can only be used (simplifying slightly...) if the old and new hardware are on the same physical LAN. If routing to the old and new hardware involves disparate networks whose routers are out of your control, then you have no choice but to wait for the DNS change. Also, with colocation and other ISP options you sometimes don't have control of IP addresses even within the same physical location.
I don't know what the configuration for BC servers are. But things seem to be working fine.
- Moni
It's a girls' world; we just let boys live in it.
If I had the boxes here on a local net ...
... changing the ip addresses would be simple. Since they are in a server farm 70 miles away, it's more problematical. I'm sort of stuck with the ip addys they give me. The two servers, three really counting the leased one, are in different corners of the building.
Changing the DNS is simple, it just takes time to propagate.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Since they are in a server farm 70 miles away ... Farm?? Huh?
Um, it struck me,
I can't get the image of my late gramdfather wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat or maybe a seed cap, driving his late 1940's orange Allis Chalmers across a field as a four-row planter places microchips under the soil that will grow into servers under the warmth of the sun.
Does Pioneer raise hybrid seed chips?
John confused in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa