[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-Users] NOTICE: zope.org server move

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On Jun 11, 2008, at 06:05 , Marius Gedminas wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 01:22:18AM -0500, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>> The zope.org-related servers and services maintained by Zope  
>> Corporation
>> will be moving to a new home late Thursday night Eastern Standard  
>> Time.
>
>> How long will the outage last?
>> ----------------------------
>>
>> The servers will be moved physically to a new hosting provider. There
>> will be an outage of about 2 hours for the physical move, as well  
>> as an
>> outage while the new DNS information for these services propagate
>> throughout the internet.
>
> If the sysadmins reduce the DNS TTLs to something like 5 minutes,  
> and do
> that well in advance of the physical move (say, couple of days  
> before),
> then new DNS information should propagate quickly.

The lowest value allowed by the web-based DNS vendor that holds the  
zope.org zone is 1200 seconds, at least that's lower than the 7200  
second value before.

jens