Date:  Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:15:20 -0600
From:  "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh (at mark) frontstreetnetworks.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:11263] Re: Moving IP to new server
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <02df01c83132$3fdb6d90$0101a8c0@systemax>
In-Reply-To:  <02cb01c83127$5c476ed0$14d64c70$@com>
X-Mail-Count: 11263

> 
> Thanks...Is this true even if I don't change the IP....just 
> the machine it was on. Deleted the site from one machine and 
> cmu to another using the same IP...both machines still 
> on...just transferred the site from one to another...didn't 
> change my dns or anything.
> 
> But when I call the site it still tries to go to the old 
> machine instead of the new one...almost as if the ip was 
> burnt into the old machine and didn't come off when I deleted 
> the site.
> 

Sounds like a router problem.
Machines communicate by MAC address, and it the router has cached the
old MAC address it will still try to connect to the old machine.
ARP (address resolution protocal) should rearp and fix itself, but
sometimes they don't.

Try resetting the router.

Gerald


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