Moving secondary DNS

Re: Moving secondary DNS

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Men,

Thus spoke Men & Mice Support <cbuxton@menandmice.com> on Wednesday, 4
December 2002 at 11:48 AM +1000:

>>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=3F 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=3F
>
>You can use a demo key if you want to set up a third machine
>temporarily. You can request one through our website.

thank you, on reflecting on the stuff below, maybe I don't need to=3F

>Be sure to change the A record for the slave server in the relevant zone.

yes that will be the new remote ip#, OK=3F

>>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=3F I am =
only
>>talking about 30 domains here.
>
>Assuming your server is known by the same name throughout all your
>domain registrations,

dot.tc is the "home" of all our stuff and has the name servers:

DOT.tc.=09=09=091D IN NS=09ns2.DOT.tc.
DOT.tc.=09=09=091D IN NS=09ns1.DOT.tc.

ns2.DOT.tc.=09=091D IN A=09=09202.129.103.8
ns1.DOT.tc.=09=091D IN A=09=09202.129.103.7

all the other domains have the line 3 & 4 above

>you only have to change the one host record.

do you mean that changing "ns2.DOT.tc. 1D IN A 202.129.103.8" to the new
ip# in the primary DNS server will be all I need=3F

If so, I will follow the following sequence:

1. Go to the new secondary DNS server and install QuickDNS

2. Timbutu to the old secondary DNS and copy folder "QuickDNS Data" from
old to new QuickDNS folder

3. Quit old QuickDNS secondary (and extract alias from startup folder)

4. copy "QDNS Pro 3.0 Server Prefs" from old system:preferences to new one

5. start up new secondary QuickDNS (and place alias in startup folder)

6. with my laptop, use QuickDNS Manager to reset A record as above on =
primary.

7. wait for zone transfer to update new secondary DNS.

wdyt,

Nick Quinn
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