Upgrade to OS 10.2 wiped out my records.

Re: Upgrade to OS 10.2 wiped out my records.

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following these instructions completely fried me. It seems as though I
have no DNS at all now. Can't connect or see any records. Tried
reinstalling QDNS 4 and it didn't work. Can't connect at all. No
records, no DNS server. Nada.

On Sunday, Sep 29, 2002, at 20:55 US/Pacific, Men & Mice Support wrote:

> Some of our users have reported that when upgrading their DNS servers
> to MacOS 10.2, all zones seem to disappear from the server. The
> reason for this is that the MacOS 10.2 installer installs a copy of
> BIND on the machine, and replaces one of the QuickDNS configuration
> files with its own.
>
> To fix this, you must use the Terminal to remove the files installed
> by Apple, restore the QuickDNS configuration file and restart the
> QuickDNS server, as described below.
>
> * Log onto your server machine using an account with Administrator
> privileges
>
> * Launch the Terminal application (In /Applications/Utilities)
>
> * Type:
> head -2 /etc/named.conf.applesaved
>
> This should print out:
>
> //
> // This file was generated by QuickDNS from Men & Mice
>
> * Then type:
> head -4 /etc/named.conf
>
> This should print out:
>
> // Declares control channels to be used by the rndc utility.
> //
> // This must be enabled on Mac OS X Server for Server Status to
> provide valid
> // information! (Remove the leading slashes to enable.)
>
> * If the output from either of these commands is not identical to the
> above,
> DO NOT PROCEED! Contact Men & Mice Tech Support for assistance.
>
> * Type:
> sudo tcsh
>
> * Enter your password when prompted
>
> * Type:
> mv /etc/named.conf /etc/named.menandmicesaved
> mv /etc/named.conf.applesaved /etc/named.conf
> /usr/sbin/qdnscontrol stopnamed
> /usr/sbin/qdnscontrol startnamed
> /usr/sbin/qdnscontrol stopremoted
> /usr/sbin/qdnscontrol startremoted
> rm -f /var/named/localhost.zone
> rm -f /var/named/named.ca
> rm -f /var/named/named.local
> exit
>
> That's it! The server should be back on its feet.
> ____________________________________________________________________
> Chris Buxton Men & Mice
> support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy
>
> At 1:39 PM -0700 9/29/02, Roland Dumas wrote:
>> had QDNS 4.0 running on mac server 10.1.5; just upgraded the server
>> and my records are no where to be found. Am I starting from scratch?
>

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