moving name server to new IP

Re: moving name server to new IP

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Chris,

Thanks a lot.

MItch

On Saturday, February 7, 2004, at 02:00 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote:

> 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
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> 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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>>
>> 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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