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DNS to propagate in minutes!
Great news today from The Register!
Starting September 8, updated DNS records will propagate within about 5 minutes for .com and .net domains, instead of the hours/days wait we've been used to since the Internet began.
This means that putting a new Web site live will become more of a real-time process, and also down time generated when switching servers (like when moving to another hosting company) will be greatly reduced.
Working in the Web industry, I can't count the number of times that I had to wait until the next morning to check if a DNS record had propagated correctly, or that I had to put up a maintenance page telling users to come back in a few days because of a site moving to another server.
Thanks to VeriSign's software update, soon these scenarios will be a thing of the past.
More at The Reg: DNS changes to take minutes (instead of hours)
Posted on July 14, 2004 at 11:51 | Tweet
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That's really cool.
Posted by Jean on July 15, 2004 at 12:11
You may get to be one of the early appreciators since I think you're planning a host move around then! :)
Posted by Patrick on July 15, 2004 at 13:13
not sure if this is correct as it's 24 hours and i'm still waiting to see the dns chnage
Posted by css designer on October 28, 2008 at 19:14