BGP announcements and small providers

Wed Feb 26 21:16:29 UTC 1997

>Uhm, sure.  Just slowly decrease the TTL on your name server until you are
>ready to renumber (and the TTL is set to something ridiculously low such as
>1 minute).  The customers will then experience something like a 1 minute
>outage when you renumber.  If we are going to start getting into the
>procedures of HOW to renumber this should likely move to the PIER mailing
>list.  I think if in general people become more interested in HOW to
>gracefully renumber themselves and their customers instead of worrying
>about how hard it is to do they would see that while it is work, it isn't
>really all that hard.  
>
Why don't you slowly decrease the TTL on your name server until you're ready
to renumber.  Configure your web server bind to the old address(es) and new
address(es).  Re-number in the DNS, and your customers will experience
something like no down time.  Then put the TTL back to where it normally is.

-Christopher