Given the significant reduction in complaints of slow DNS updating, it seems that Google have made efforts to refresh DNS more often (as GoogleGuy indicated they would).
msr986
7:15 pm on Mar 12, 2003 (gmt 0)
I changed one of my IP addresses over the weekend. It started resolving Monday. Almost immediately the deep bot has been visiting the new IP address, however, the fresh bot has still been visiting the old IP. I guess they have more than one DNS cache!
j_h_maccann
8:04 pm on Mar 12, 2003 (gmt 0)
I moved a domain to a new IP (new host) on 3 March, leaving a full copy at the old IP, and "flipped the switch" at UltraDNS for an immediate change (so the only way to reach the old site was by IP address). Google never came to the old IP again, and began deep-crawling at the new IP the following day. Almost every other spider soon followed. Fast and Alexa took three days to give up on the old IP. The only holdout now is "AskJeeves/Teoma" which is still crawling the old IP nine days later.
xlcus
8:12 pm on Mar 12, 2003 (gmt 0)
I'm now wishing that they hadn't updated their DNS. DNS for my site is down at the moment, and I haven't had a single access from the deep crawl bot :-(
crumpeta
8:33 pm on Mar 12, 2003 (gmt 0)
Yes they did. I made an 64 ip block switch 2 weeks ago and within 2 days freshbot found the new ips. Within 5 days deepbot found them.
jdMorgan
8:39 pm on Mar 12, 2003 (gmt 0)
Great news!
This will probably save Brett several MB of bandwidth on WebmasterWorld every month! :)
