network solutions dns server update - how long to propagate?

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Tue Dec 7 15:21:59 UTC 1999


In article <384C70DA.63DBE259 at montevino.com>,
Lawrence Chan <webmaster at montevino.com> wrote:
>Thanks Barry.
>
>In case for whatever reasons things start messing up and we need to get
>the domain
>web pages up, can we set the new name server to act as secondary to the old name
>server? Can we then set the old name server to redirect to the new name
>server until
>Internic made the changes (that is if the old name server agrees to redirect)?
>Please advice.

Of course.  I would recommend always doing that, to make the transition go
smoothly.

Why would you think it wouldn't work?  All that matters is that the servers
that your domain is delegated to have the data you want.  How they get it
is immaterial as far as the rest of the Internet is concerned.

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