how to forward all incoming traffic to new server

we're getting ready to take our old web server offline and replace with a
new
one. the new server will be hosted from a different city, so we're getting
an entirely new IP. once we've set up the new box and replicated all the
sites and databases, we need to be able to switch everything over in an
instant, pointing all incoming requests to the old server's IP to the new
server's IP. it's been suggested that i look into changing the DNS zone file
of the original server, but i'm having a hard time finding the file and info
on how to edit this.

can anybody point me if the right direction?

tks


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