Re: how to forward all incoming traffic to new server

Hi,
What you need is a web or port proxy that can forward all the http requests
to the new server. see http://www.boutell.com/rinetd/
If the new server is internal to your network then you could use ISA server.
You may be able to redirect in IIS for all webs http://www to http://www2$V
(I think)
But it’s still a lot of work.
See
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/41c238b2-1188-488f-bf2d-464383b1bb08.mspx



"Dica" wrote:

>
> "Wendel Hamilton" <WendelHamilton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:D7D70110-05AA-4E77-9B4A-4FFA4AEFB4B8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi,
> > Changing the WWW record in DNS will not switch it over immediately as it
> > will take up to 3 days for all the DNS servers around the world to
> invalidate
> > their caches.
> > Set up the new web server to respond to say www2.mydomain.com
> > then set up a redirect on your old server to the new server at
> > www2.mydomain.com.
> > So all requests initially come to the old server at www.mydomain.com but
> are
> > redirected to the new one.
> > Then change your WWW record to point to the new server and after 3 or so
> > days you can decommission the old server.
>
> thanks wendel. that might work for a single site, but the old server hosts
> about 100 or more sites and i think it's going to take too long to set that
> up for each site. isn't there a simpler way to deal with this? i'd like to
> approach the problem at the root level. is there a way to configure the
> network cards themselves to redirect all TCP/IP traffic to the new box?
>
> >
> >
> > "Dica" wrote:
> >
> > > 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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