On Tue, Nov 06, 2012, carlb wrote:
Hopefully you've set time-to-live to something ridiculously short on these DNS records?
dig says it's one hour, which isn't too bad. This seems to be standard for all WMF sites though, with Wikipedia for example on the same timeout.
$ dig en.wikivoyage.org @ns0.wikimedia.org
;; QUESTION SECTION: ;en.wikivoyage.org. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION: en.wikivoyage.org. 3600 IN CNAME america.wikivoyage.org. america.wikivoyage.org. 3600 IN A 5.9.71.41
-Mary