[svlug] Northpoint collapse -- possible immediate outage

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Drew Bertola wrote:

> I've wondered about situations like this.  Assuming you could find
> someone to host you for the interim, wouldn't it be wise to set your
> ttls to, say, 1 hour until the crisis is resolved?  It would present a
> greater load on your DNS box, but it would make for a much swifter
> transition to a new ip.  Of course, this is only possible because you
> have advanced warning.

What do you think I just did for all 28 domains I host? Ugh.

And to think I may need to get interim dialup somewhere. Ugh.

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