Forwarding problem.

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I have a customer's website that I have to move from one webserver (serverA)
to another (serverB) this weekend.

Their website had a DNS record pointing to the main IP address of serverA.
We bound a new IP address to serverA and requested that the DNS record for
this customer's URL be changed to the new IP address. The idea is that this
information has had time to propagate throughout the world and this weekend
we can safely unbind the IP address from serverA and bind it to serverB and
everything will work.

However, we've just discovered that the people who change our DNS records
did not actually change the record but simply added a new record. This
means that a nslookup on the customer's URL returns two IP addresses, the
one we can migrate between machines and the one that we can't.

We've asked them to delete the DNS record and they say that they'll
definitely do it within 5 working days, so including propagation time we
could be having requests to the wrong IP address for up to 7 days.

What we want to do is to ensure that any requests to the old machine are
automatically forwarded to the website on the new machine. The old machine
will still continue to host several other customers' websites.

Any suggestions?

We're using IIS on Windows2000. Web pages are almost exclusively ASP (not
..Net) and most requests come in the form
'http://customer.domain.co.uk/page.asp?a=b&c=d&e=f'.

Many many thanks to anyone who can help!

Thanks

Griff
 
IIS allows you to define a premanent redirection, in the properties
of the website. You could use this until the stale DNS record has
aged out.
BTW you need to wait, after the DNS change, not just the time
for the propagation delay, but also a time equal to the TTL (time
to live) on the record, as the record with the old IP is allowed to
be cached and used downstream for up to the TTL.
 
-----Original Message-----
I have a customer's website that I have to move from one webserver (serverA)
to another (serverB) this weekend.

Their website had a DNS record pointing to the main IP address of serverA.
We bound a new IP address to serverA and requested that the DNS record for
this customer's URL be changed to the new IP address. The idea is that this
information has had time to propagate throughout the world and this weekend
we can safely unbind the IP address from serverA and bind it to serverB and
everything will work.

However, we've just discovered that the people who change our DNS records
did not actually change the record but simply added a new record. This
means that a nslookup on the customer's URL returns two IP addresses, the
one we can migrate between machines and the one that we can't.

We've asked them to delete the DNS record and they say that they'll
definitely do it within 5 working days, so including propagation time we
could be having requests to the wrong IP address for up to 7 days.

What we want to do is to ensure that any requests to the old machine are
automatically forwarded to the website on the new machine. The old machine
will still continue to host several other customers' websites.

Any suggestions?

We're using IIS on Windows2000. Web pages are almost exclusively ASP (not
..Net) and most requests come in the form
'http://customer.domain.co.uk/page.asp?a=b&c=d&e=f'.

Many many thanks to anyone who can help!

Thanks

Griff
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PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP

**************
The FBI has been harassing and mentally torturing me for
two and half years since around Oct 01. The FBI has
installed
gps tracking devices in my car, tracked me like an animal,
wire tapped my phone and has been monitoring all my web
surfing
activities for 2.5yrs and completely dehumanized me.
The FBI agents have been following me 24X7X60X60 everywhere
including grocery stores, retail stores, malls,
restaurants and movie
theaters. The FBI agents who were following me have at
times
verbally and racially abused me in retail store and
grocery store
parking lots by shouting at me inanities.
One FBI agent once tried to ram into my car from behind
with a
comcast van and came within one inch of hitting me from
behind.
There was no traffic altercation between us and there was
no
traffic on the road. The FBI agent in the comcast van
never tried
to overtake me and was very angry at me and hated me for
no reason.
I have been unemployed for close to 3 yrs and When I send
resumes
to potential employers, the sadistic FBI agents who were
monitoring
my email and websurfing, have been badmouthing and
assasinating my
character with recruiters and jeopardizing my job
opportunities
for the last 2.5 yrs.
The FBI has been interfering in my personal life for no
reason.
The FBI has completely destroyed and denied me any sort
of privacy for 2.5 yrs. Each and every word I type and
post on
the web is being monitored and each and every email tapped.
The sadistic FBI has forced me to live like a virtual
prisoner
for 2.5 yrs with zero privacy and 24 hr real time video
focused
on me. I cant talk to friends, family members and
prospective
employers without the fear of being over heard and
recorded.
I am afraid of doing everything and anything without fear.

I am not a terrorist. I am not even a muslim. I dont have
any muslim friends. I am not a drug smuggler. I did not
kill
anybody. I did not threaten to kill anybody. I dont have
a
record like gottis or escobars. I do not have any prior
criminal record. Why should I suffer all this harassment
and
constant loss of privacy for such an extended period of
time.
I feel completely naked infront of the world and it has
been
like that for a couple of years.
I am not familiar with US legal system that much. Can
somebody
tell me why the sadistic FBI has such ridiculous
amount of power to harass and mentally torture me. WHy do
the
FBI has the right to think they are God and they are
always right.
WHy should my life depend on what the FBI thinks of me.
Why should
I be put through so much pain and suffering. Why do the
FBI has the
right to deny me privacy for so long. Who gave the FBI
the right to interfere
in my personal life and bad mouth and assasinate my
character with
potential employers. Why are the FBI agents telling
employers not
to hire me. As it is, it is very difficult to find a job
in this
economy and whatever few opportunities I get are being
screwed
by these fbi sadists.
On what basis, the FBI installed a gps device in my car
and tracking
me like an animal. On what basis did the FBI wire tap my
phone.
On what basis did the FBI tap and monitor my web
activities
and email for 2.5 yrs. I feel as if I was put in a 6x6
cell with
24X7 video focused on me and fbi agents standing around
the cell
and constantly poking me with sticks.
One undercover FBI agent sent an email and called me a
dumbass.
His email is (e-mail address removed) and his ebay id is
spodekmodek.

Lot of FBI agents are harrassing me 24X7 in vehilces with
michigan title plates UFX 210 (white SUV), XRA 155 (black
car), BOGEY 27 (black car), PPL 587 (red car).

Assume everything I said is true and somebody with legal
knowledge
and expertise help me out here.
I do not have access to us.legal and misc.legal usenet
news groups. I would appreciate if somebody can do a cut
and paste this into us.legal and misc.legal news groups.
 
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