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      iceget
      last edited by

      hello community,
      i have a question about redirecting from ip addresses:

      i must change a ip adresse on a server, but i know that a lot of peoples must wait 24-48 hours until the dns update is refresht on all servers.

      so temporary, i have installed on the old ip pfsense.

      now i want redirect the oldip to the new ip.

      oldip is the wan ip address of pfsense

      can you help me?

      how i can do that?

      many greets iceget

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        Reiner030
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        best is to forward/NAT with old IP till requests are gone…
        If that is not possible you could setup a small webserver (on pfsense directly?) which proxies the requests.

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          iceget
          last edited by

          hey,

          thank you for your help! yes, with the webserver proxy thats perfect!

          thank you!

          many greets iceget

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            SysIT
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            get a DNS provider like Neustar /UltraDNS, or set your DNS records to as low as possible, for most that is 300 seconds = 5 mins.

            and switch over.

            the  24-48 hour time frames was what companies claimed years ago, which depended largely on your TTL settings of a domain name

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              Reiner030
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              @SysIT:

              get a DNS provider like Neustar /UltraDNS, or set your DNS records to as low as possible, for most that is 300 seconds = 5 mins.
              and switch over.

              you won't transfer a big DNS zone for firewall switching only to another DNS registrar and afterwards back ;)

              the  24-48 hour time frames was what companies claimed years ago, which depended largely on your TTL settings of a domain name

              As you wrote above you need only to change your zone to a small TTL for the switching time… but perhaps his registrar didn't support it or even a small TTL is too much for his task...

              And what you decide the best is is not always that your your/foreign ISPs find nice... Years ago and perhaps still actual they sometimes caches with their own TTL even you have short ones... so if someone needs "instant" switching you need a proxy (done so for several shops when moving them to bigger/better hosting locations).

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                SysIT
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                very true, unfortunately, other providers will set what they fill suits them best, and often costs them less resources / money.

                i will say thought, i have hasd pretty good luck myself, and i am located in Costa Rica, but we have a ISP linked direct into Miami.

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