IP migration: unix4

We'll be doing the unix boxes first since those are the ones that will move to new address space. Addresses freed up by the unix boxes will be recycled and assigned to windows servers.

There is no particular order in which they will be migrated. Address space has been pre-assigned for all servers. Unix boxes are taken based on which one's current addresses are most needed or most easily recycled. Windows boxes will be done depending on when their assigned blocks of contiguous addresses become available. So far unix12 and unix4 have been moved.

[mresell]

Thanks for the update alex!

[newmem]

Originally Posted by alexc

We'll be doing the unix boxes first since those are the ones that will move to new address space. Addresses freed up by the unix boxes will be recycled and assigned to windows servers.

There is no particular order in which they will be migrated. Address space has been pre-assigned for all servers. Unix boxes are taken based on which one's current addresses are most needed or most easily recycled. Windows boxes will be done depending on when their assigned blocks of contiguous addresses become available. So far unix12 and unix4 have been moved.

thanks for the reply........but what I wanted to know if the website is going to be not available online during this change. The site is on nt28 and I will adjust sending the newsletter depending on when the site is expected to be down, so can you please let me know the time/ day/ period of downtime as accurately as possible, if at all possible to predict.

Thanks..........

[Brangwyn]

As you can see from the other two servers that have been converted they've given notice, the first was a little messy but unix4 seemed to go fairly smoothly. As I understand it the sites are only very briefly down whilst it's being updated anyway most customers probably won't even notice it.

Any windows box migrations are still at least several weeks away. I'd expect NT28 to fall around the middle of the windows box migration schedule, when we have one.

[newmem]

ok, thanks......

Originally Posted by Brangwyn

As you can see from the other two servers that have been converted they've given notice, the first was a little messy but unix4 seemed to go fairly smoothly. As I understand it the sites are only very briefly down whilst it's being updated anyway most customers probably won't even notice it.

Yep, we've even hammered out a way to prevent as much downtime as was on unix4 (not very much btw). The Shared IP takes a very long time to switch, but the dedicated IPs change rapidly, so we'll be changing the dedicated IPs first and then doing the Shared. What was happening before was the Shared IP would occur in the middle of the list of IPs, so half the dedicated IPs would be removed from the machine, and we'd have to manually put them back. Anyway, we've pretty much got it pinned.

[electricfox]

Do you guys have some sort of over-arching plan for this switch? An IP-map of sorts with dates? I know you don't want people switching without it having changed, but if you list all the new IPs with the dates they will be enabled, I doubt many will switch too early. I'm just annoyed because I have to check this forum daily to make sure another one of my dedicated IP customers doesn't get switched without me knowing about it. Give me a roadmap for this change, please!

[jtaugher]

Originally Posted by electricfox

Do you guys have some sort of over-arching plan for this switch? An IP-map of sorts with dates? I know you don't want people switching without it having changed, but if you list all the new IPs with the dates they will be enabled, I doubt many will switch too early. I'm just annoyed because I have to check this forum daily to make sure another one of my dedicated IP customers doesn't get switched without me knowing about it. Give me a roadmap for this change, please!

Why don't you set up a notification to send you a daily listing of the subjects of all articles that have changed? I don't ever check the forums -- just get 1-5 emails a day (depending on which of the 5 forums) have a new message in it (new or a new reply).

[newmem]

what do I have to do if I have a site on a dedicated IP on nt28? I thought everything was going to get handled from vortech's side and I didn't have to change any settings?

[Brangwyn]

Originally Posted by electricfox

Do you guys have some sort of over-arching plan for this switch? An IP-map of sorts with dates? I know you don't want people switching without it having changed, but if you list all the new IPs with the dates they will be enabled, I doubt many will switch too early. I'm just annoyed because I have to check this forum daily to make sure another one of my dedicated IP customers doesn't get switched without me knowing about it. Give me a roadmap for this change, please!

Until the migration script is actually run on the server I don't believe they know what the exact IP mapping will be.

Unless you have customers not using vortech nameservers the impact of the change is minor.