Search Again: Re: Moving secondary DNS From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2002 Time: 5:49:41 pm At 7:54 AM +1000 12/5/02, Nick Quinn wrote: >Hi, > >We are preparing to move to OS X in the next six months but currently all >our servers are OS9 and so our two QuickDNS' are version 3.5.1. > >We want to move the DNS secondary off site which means that its IP# will >change. Can I simply take down the old server DNS facility, move the >files and reinstall in the new place and bring it up again? Or should I >play it really safe and set up a temporary third DNS for the transition >and, if so, do I have to buy a new licence? You can use a demo key if you want to set up a third machine temporarily. You can request one through our website. Be sure to change the A record for the slave server in the relevant zone. >AND, do I have to change all the delegations of the domains I have to >reflect the new ip# of the secondary or are the tld smart enought to >"see" the change by relooking up the domain name on my primary? I am only >talking about 30 domains here. Assuming your server is known by the same name throughout all your domain registrations, you only have to change the one host record. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy

Messages In This Thread: Moving secondary DNS by Nick Quinn on Dec 4, 2002 at 2:05:26 pm Re: Moving secondary DNS by Men & Mice Support on Dec 4, 2002 at 5:49:41 pm Re: Moving secondary DNS by Nick Quinn on Dec 4, 2002 at 8:04:17 pm Re: Moving secondary DNS by billc_lists@greenbuilder.com on Dec 4, 2002 at 9:00:33 pm Re: Moving secondary DNS by Nick Quinn on Dec 4, 2002 at 11:05:35 pm Re: Moving secondary DNS by Men & Mice Support on Dec 5, 2002 at 5:09:48 pm