I think this is a fantastic idea... ...though I hate to rain on your parade... I've found the ISPs seem to ignore the ttl which makes reducing it pointless. I just tell clients that it WILL be down for up to 48 hours and anything less is the good karma you've earned in the universe. It would be helpful if ISPs like Xtra and Telstra (and others) didn't set up their DNS servers to ignore shorter ttl. I've also found that domains will go live from overseas before they come live here in NZ when in the .co.nz space. Anyone who can improve things gets my vote for PM! :) Most appreciated :) </rant> Cheers Don Simon Lyall wrote:
After a few recent instances I am getting sick of companies who transfer their DNS/Servers from one provider to another and then wonder why the old data is still cached by 3rd parties for 24 hours (or whatever).
How do people feel about a "best practice" document on this that we could encourage people to follow ( perhaps the DNC could publish) for people moving their domain between providers. Just the basics like, dropping the TTLs, getting all the servers data in the right order etc?
Similar to this:
http://www.onr.com/services/data_center/colocation/transfer_tips.html
Thoguhts?
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