Mario and Nikodemus, please update the information at the registars. Erik. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: JohnCompanies dns servers are _now switched_ - please read From: support@johncompanies.com Date: Sun, August 24, 2003 8:48 am To: erik@nittin.net Hello, IMPORTANT - this is a message we are sending to all of our customers, so please DO NOT reply to it unless you need to. Ok, the switch is done - we have changed the IPs of our original dns servers from: ns1c.johncompanies.com 198.78.70.180 ns2c.johncompanies.com 198.78.66.4 to: ns1c.johncompanies.com 69.55.225.225 ns2c.johncompanies.com 69.55.230.3 It is NOW appropriate for you to do the following: 1. On your system, edit /etc/resolv.conf and change the two nameservers in there. The effect is immediate, and you do not need to reboot or anything like that. If you use other nameservers than ours to begin with, obviously you can keep them if you want. However, if what you have in resolv.conf is our old ones, seen above, please do change them both. 2. Go to your registrar (network solutions, godaddy, etc.) and change the DNS settings to point to the two new IPs - please note that the names of the two nameservers are not changing, just the IPs. If you do not use us for DNS, you don't need to do this step. AGAIN, it bears repeating, the _names_ are not changing, just the Ip of each dns server, so the two IPs are all you need to change for any domain that we do dns for. 3. If we are your secondary dns, and we slave from you, change your zones to allow 69.55.225.225 to do zone transfers from you now. --- The old IPs will continue to work and answer for a week or so, but after that, they will be discontinued - so please do these items this coming week. As always, thank you very much for your business! --john