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Originally Posted by pem
Am I missing something ? - are you saying your site exists on both hosts ? - if so then just change the A record - people simply won't notice when their resolution swaps from one IP to the other.
You should not do what you say (assuming I have understood it correctly) - it breaks the basic rules of dns (that the primary and secondary dns should match).
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I want to transfer the site from one host to another, so will not be able to use the old DNS soon.
I assume that downtime occurs when (a) the original hosts closes a Web site early (b) the new host DNS can not be found until it resolves.
By pointing the secondary DNS record to the new host, I was hoping that if a request could not find the primary host, then it would find the secondary. Once the tranfer has gone though, I would then change the primary DNS to the new host.
Regards,
Ian Tresman
Derby, UK