April 30th, 2009
Nameserver Maintenance Event
We’re making some planned infrastructure changes during the month of May. The first of these changes involve our namerservers: ns1.slicehost.net, ns2.slicehost.net and ns3.slicehost.net. Currently ns1 and ns2 are located in STL-A, ns3 is offsite. Next week, ns1 will move to DFW, ns2 will move to STL-B and ns3 will remain offsite. An outline of what’s taking place next week is below.
DATE: Tuesday May 5
EVENT: We’ll be changing the slicehost.net authoritative DNS records with our registrar.
IMPACT: The only people affected by this event will be those who have hardcoded our nameserver IPs into applications or configuration files (instead of using ns1/ns2/ns3). It’s atypical to hardcode IPs, but we understand people have their reasons. If you did hardcode the IPs, we recommend changing them ASAP to ns1.slicehost.net, ns2.slicehost.net and ns3.slicehost.net.
DATE: Saturday May 9 0400-0430 GMT
EVENT: Backend changes on our DNS application.
IMPACT: During this window, customers using our nameservers will be unable to modify their records.
If you have any questions about the planned events above, please get in touch with our support team. We have another event tentatively scheduled for May 22, a blog post explaining these changes will be posted in a week or so. Thank you!
April 30th, 2009 at 10:05 PM Mat
Thanks for the heads-up!
April 30th, 2009 at 11:22 PM Dan
Good to know, thanks for the notice… always appreciated!
May 1st, 2009 at 12:49 AM Mark
Does this change make your DNS any more reliable by distributing them across multiple data centers?
May 1st, 2009 at 02:28 AM slicematt
@mark – that’s the plan.
May 1st, 2009 at 05:14 AM Lex
Will slicehost’s resolvers change?
May 1st, 2009 at 05:37 AM jason
Lex,
Local recursive resolvers will not change.
May 2nd, 2009 at 01:28 PM Steve
I’m assuming this is supposed to read Tuesday May 5th?
May 3rd, 2009 at 05:16 AM jason
Steve, thanks for catching that, updated the post.