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Re: Changing ISP, updating DNS

From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Monday, January 17, 2000
Time: 2:40:00 am

At 3:57 PM +0000 1/16/2000, Mark Palmer, Pageworks wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 15, 2000, 12:53:35 am GMT Men & Mice Support wrote:
>
>
>>Bad order of operation. What you've outlined would take down at least
>>your DNS services, and possibly others, until everything is updated.
>>
>>I've taken a look at your DNS, and I see a better way to do this,
>>based on the fact that you already have two DNS server of your own
>>(plus one at your old [?] provider) and the fact that none of your
>>services appear to be on the same machine. In other words, ns1, ns2,
>>mail, and www (in the pageworks.co.uk domain) are all different
>>machines.
>>
>>1) Move ns2.pageworks.co.uk to its new address - change the address
>>in TCP/IP......
>
>A quick question. QDNS running as ns2.pageworks.co.uk presumably
>copes ok with being secondary to ns1.pageworks.co.uk with my
>original range of ip numbers and being a primary for pageworks.co.uk
>and my new range of ip numbers? Or will it see pageworks.co.uk in
>the primary data and the secondary data and throw its hands up?

Don't give it any primary domain files. Just leave it as a secondary server. It will continue to give out the old addresses until the data is changed on the primary server, which is the idea.
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Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com
Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com
Makers of: QuickDNS Pro



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