Re: Maintenance
I haven't really seen workstations change DNS servers very well. Usually it hits the first one and if it doesn't work (and nothing is cached), I've seen it just quit (throw up errors).
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Couldn't you also in your workstations have a third DNS ip address which points to the new server. Then when you bring that server offline, your workstations wouldn't have to wait for a cache, because...
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It's a suitable practice, though DNS caching may not allow this change to propagate immediately. A better solution is a cluster or load balanced web farm where taking one off-line has no effect.Jeff
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We have a service oriented arcitecture (SOA) where we have business processes packaged as web services. From time to time there may be a need to bring an IIS server down to perform maintenance. Since...
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