At 02:18 PM 3/15/2007 -0500, Michael Graveen wrote: >I'm not sure if I'm asking this question correctly, but here goes. I have >two servers in the same IP range (ns.domain1.com and mail.domain2.com). My >DNS server is on ns.domain1.com and I want to move it to mail.domain2.com >while I rebuild mail.domain1.com. I'm running Microsoft's DNS on Server >2003. Can I just move the IP address, that the DNS is associated with at >DirectNic, from ns.domain1.com to mail.domain2.com and transfer the DNS and >files, and have it work, even though the fully qualified names are not the >same? Does any lookup for domains on my DNS server only worry about the IP >address of the DNS server being correct or is there more to it than that? > Thanks, Mike
You can move the IP address to the temp machine and replicate the original's DNS setup on it as well. As long as you keep mail.domain2.com's original IP address on it as well, you won't need to make any changes to the DNS entries. The point is that the DNS entries(A records) and IP addresses match up, what box they're on makes no difference to DNS. Since the IP addresses of both ns.domain1.com and mail.domain2.com will remain the same, the reverse records won't need changed either. -- Kirk Mitchell-General Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keystone Connect Unlock Your World Altoona, PA 814-941-5000 http://www.keyconn.net To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
