Re: Moving to new ISP

Oh the easiest solution with ZERO downtime would be to setup a dynamic
DNS account with a service like http://freedns.afraid.org/ . Simply
setup your stuff there, point your godaddy name server to their
nameservers, when you get your new IP, change it at the afraid.org
service, and then after things are running smoothly you can go ahead
and change to your new info at godaddy.

Frank McCallister SBS MVP wrote:
> Hi Gary
>
> Since this is a Business critical Email you should already have a backup
> mail server in place on a higher numbered priority ie if your MX record is
> company.com priority 10 you shoud have a backup at mail.godaddy.net priority
> 20 setup. Then if your server is ever down more than 4 hours your mail will
> go to the backup mail server and be held until your server comes back up. I
> use dyndns.org for my backup and was down for 10 days during Hurricane Ivan
> and didn't lose a single piece of Junk mail ;-)
>
> If Godaddy doesn't provide backup mail service ck with Dyndns.org they are
> reasonable and reliable.
>
> --
> Frank McCallister SBS MVP
> COMPUMAC
> "Gary" <gepea***@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1118780703.021635.48550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Thanks for the quick response.
> >
> > Same domains, new IP addresses. I agree that most email servers out
> > there will hold the mail till it can be delivered, but i know that the
> > one email that doesnt get delivered will cost us a sale and then
> > ass=grass.
> >
> > I was also thinking about playing with the mx records (putting the new
> > isp as the main mx with the old isp as a backup now) Seems to me when
> > the new isp comes online everthing would work right away because there
> > would be no dns changes that need to propagate. Dont know enough about
> > dns records to do this safely though.
> >
> > Thoughts on this or the temp box idea would great. Email continuity is
> > all that matters.
> >
> > Gary
> >

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