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Does this actually cause a disruption of service though? It seems like it would be trivial to just keep the configuration in place for 72 hours even after chang

Does this actually cause a disruption of service though? It seems like it would be trivial to just keep the configuration in place for 72 hours even after changing the DNS entry.

agmiklas 16y ago
They actually do that -- they keep the old IP live for a while to prevent problems with clients that might have cached the IP.
- lox 16y ago
  So could we not update the A records IP address every couple of hours and still get roughly speaking the benefit of load-balanced load-balancers?