I just moved our old dns server to a new one. I followed the
instructions from:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280061/en-us
Tito
Darin Cox wrote:
Nope... but I would think you'd want to change the new server to
primary, which removes the dependency on the old server, before changing
the IPs.
Note that it is a recommended practice to have multiple DNS servers, one
being primary and the others secondaries. If this is serving DNS zones
to the internet, then having them on separate networks for protection
against local network failure is also recommended.
Darin.
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*From:* Sharyn Schmidt <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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*Sent:* Monday, February 27, 2006 12:19 PM
*Subject:* RE: [IMail Forum] OT: DNS for dummies question
Last question on this...since I plan on REPLACING the old server with
the new one, I am going to give the new server the same IP address as
the old one (after pulling the old one off the network)
If I set up the new server as a secondary with a temporary IP address to
pull in the zone from the primary, and then change the IP address to the
old server's when I'm ready for it to go online, is this gonna mess up
my DNS settings?
Or, If you'd rather copy the zone files, you can add them that
way. We typically go the route of setting up secondary zones on the
new server, pulling from the old server, then switch the new server
to primary if desired.
Darin.
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*From:* Sharyn Schmidt <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Monday, February 27, 2006 11:47 AM
*Subject:* RE: [IMail Forum] OT: DNS for dummies question
Hi Darin,
thanks...do I just export/import the registry key or do I actually
have to copy the files found in the DNS folder to the new machine as
well?
The last time I did this, I was setting up brand new zones and a
brand new primary name server and did everything from scratch.
Sharyn
Zone files and registry settings under
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DNS does it, but another
way to migrate DNS other than copying zone files is to set up
the new server as a secondary, pulling the zone files from the
primary. Then you can switch the zones on the new server to
primary and the old one to secondary, if you like.
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