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by toast0 2900 days ago
_most_ of the traffic will move in response to DNS changes, but there's always a group of resolvers that keep your old IPs for an unreasonable amount of time. I've taken machines out of DNS rotations with short TTLS (I think 5 minutes, but maybe 1 hour) and had some amount of traffic on them for weeks. After a reasonable amount of time, too bad for them, but when I can work behind a 'real' load balancer it's nice to be able to actually turn off the traffic.