[H-SASIG] Move of Excalibur

[Robert Brockway]

On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Russell Stuart wrote:

> Yes, well I was close to that.  I wanted to change the old excalibur as
> little as possible, so rather than making it a slave I just ensured
> excalibur.humbug.org.au (what the NS record points to) had the new
> servers IP.  In retrospect making a slave would have been just as easy,
> so I have done that now.

Just a reminder that the IP of old excalibur is 72.14.178.254 if anyone 
needs to get back there.  ssh to tcp/24 is working.

>> Also the old excalibur is not receiving any zone updates from the new
>> excalibur which could cause issues if glue records aren't up to date
>> in a cache somewhere, and you can't control the TTL [5] of glue
>> records at the registry, so there is little you can do to prevent
>> this.
>
> Yes.  The glue record for NS excalibur.humbug.org.au is indeed the
> problem I was referring to originally.  Are you sure TTL's apply to

The glue record is really just an A record in the parent zone file, so the 
TTL of the parent zone applies.

Rob

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