moving name server to new IP

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You have two servers, plus an off-site slave, right?

- Set up the new master, including copying the data over using the
included AppleScripts*. You'll have three servers running,
temporarily; we don't mind, as long as it's temporary.

- Change the A record for your master server's name to the new
server's address. Make this change on both new and old masters.

- Tell your domain registrar that the master has moved to a new IP.

- Configure both slaves to start looking to the new master instead of
the old master.

- Wait a few days. This step isn't strictly necessary, since you have
two slaves, but it gives the best possible results. This way, most of
the world will have time to adjust to the changed address (though, as
someone pointed out, not everyone [AOL] respects TTL's).

- Remove QuickDNS from the old master server (i.e. your web server).

Don't worry about changing your TTL's in advance. They're probably
one day, which is shorter than the TTL used by the TLD servers
(usually 2 days, depending on which TLD). And besides, you have the
two slave servers, plus you can run the old master for a few days
after setting up the new master.
____________________________________________________________________
Chris Buxton Men & Mice
Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy

At 1:05 PM -0500 2/7/04, Mitch Kahn wrote:
>If I understand this correctly won't I have to provide a different
>name for the new server and change all of the registration
>information for every account (some of which I don't control)?
>
>By simply changing the address to the new IP and copying the zone
>information to the new address, then I only have to update the
>secondary so it knows where to point to to stay current.
>
>Or, am I missing something here?
>
>Mitch
>
>
>On Saturday, February 7, 2004, at 12:10 PM, Michael wrote:
>
>>If you can I would add your new DNS info to Network Solutions (and
>>turn on new DNS server). Wait a few days - while checking DNS logs
>>to make sure that your secondary is getting its updates from new
>>server. Then remove DNS info for old server from Network Solutions.
>>Wait a few more days while check logs on old/new servers.
>>
>>On the setup of the zones you can shorten your times to 10 minutes or so.
>>
>>Michael
>>
>>On Saturday, February 7, 2004, at 10:23 AM, Mitch Kahn wrote:
>>
>>>I want to move my name server to it's own computer (currently
>>>sharing space with a WebSTAR server). At the same time I am going
>>>to move to the OS X version.
>>>
>>>It would seem to me that since I have two OS-9 licenses, one of
>>>which was upgraded to 10, that if I put the server on 10 and set
>>>it to a new IP address, turn off my secondary temporarily (I have
>>>another secondary on someone else's service, then tel Network
>>>Solutions that I have moved the server to a new IP address, that
>>>this should be the most elegant and seamless solution to a
>>>transition. After a couple of weeks, I would turn the secondary
>>>back on and delete the original primary.
>>>
>>>Does this appear to be the best strategy, or is there a better way to do it?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Mitch
>>>
>>>_
>>>
>>>Mitchell Kahn
>>>mitch@middlecoast.net
>>>
>>>Tel. 616.241.5650 x10
>>>Fax 616.241.3583
>>>Cell 616.813.7170
>>>
>>>1154 Calvin Avenue Southeast
>>>Grand Rapids, MI 49506-3237
>>>USA
>>>
>>
>>
>_
>
>Mitchell Kahn
>mitch@middlecoast.net
>
>Tel. 616.241.5650 x10
>Fax 616.241.3583
>Cell 616.813.7170
>
>1154 Calvin Avenue Southeast
>Grand Rapids, MI 49506-3237
>USA

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