Search Again: switching from primary to secondary From: Alex Miller Date: Friday, January 7, 2000 Time: 4:02:00 pm I have a number of domains with my ISP that are configured as primary masters on Quick DNS. I have my own linux box and am running bind. Now these domains are masters on bind 8 and successfully slaves (secondary masters) on ns1.granitecanyon.com the Public DNS. I want to have my zone records switched from primary masters to secondary masters (or masters to slaves, whichever term QuickDNS uses) on the name server that uses QuickDNS. My ISP was originally under the impression that QuickDNS made no distinction between primary and secondary and simply looked to the list of authoritative servers from the registrar and the one at the top of the list was primary, and therefore QuickDNS would respond accordingly. Now we have found a way of setting the primary server in an advanced option for the zone records, which correctly changes the SOA record. My suspicion is that primary zones and secondary zones are completely different entries in QuickDNS, and that the procedure will be to delete the current entries and create new secondaries. Can anyone provide any guidance here. I realize, of course, if I had the manual, if I were the owner of that nameserver I could probably find it, but I don't and I'm not. I'd like to pass on the information to my ISP so they'll refer to that part of the manual, but it would be diplomatic if I described it as a solution rather than just telling them to read the manual. Alex Miller

Messages In This Thread: switching from primary to secondary by Alex Miller on Jan 7, 2000 at 4:02:00 pm Re: switching from primary to secondary by Global Homes Webmaster on Jan 7, 2000 at 6:58:00 pm Re: switching from primary to secondary by Men & Mice Support on Jan 8, 2000 at 4:35:00 am