Vitaliy wrote:
> I want to say it was DNS propagation issues, but when I looked into it
> yesterday, the URL www.findchips.com got me to the new site, but the
> IP that the URL resolved to (via ping and whois tools), got me the
> old one.
>
> I don't remember enough about how the internet works to come up with
> an explanation that would make sense.

This is just a wild guess, but it might have been a TTL issue.  The DNS
records were switched, but the old one gave out a fairly long TTL value so
stayed valid in various caches.  Whether or not you got the old or new one
then dependended on which DNS server you asked, and whether it had the old
one still cached with a valid remaining lifetime, or didn't and therefore
had to ask the official DNS server for that domain.

Usually you set the TTL value low then wait for all the old longer leases t=
o
expire before switching DNS entries, for exactly this reason.  Or if it's
just a web site, you can keep the new site a identical copy of the old one
until the last possible old DNS lease expires.  Apparently these guys did
neither.


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