Michael: Is your DNS integrated with Active Directory and a Domain Controller.?
Would be better to just add a domain controller to the network when the Registry and DNS info would be automatically transferred to new controller, then you can blitz the first server, just remove its IP address from InterNIC or whoever as an SOA If you haven't done it, set up Active Directory on first DNS Server, then have Active Directory replicate everything over to new Domain Controller/DNS server. Saves even thinking about registry and copying DNS files What is your domain name and IP addresses of Name Severs? Ted Daniels ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Graveen To: [email protected] ; [email protected] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 8:21 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT: DNS Question Thanks for the responses. The move wasn't successful. I copied the zones files and the registry keys that I thought made up the DNS. I also moved the IP address that was on old DNS server to the new DNS server, also keeping the original IP of the new DNS server. The zones would not show up on the other server (registry paths were correct). I'm obviously missing something here. Any more tips would be appreciated. Thanks, Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from list.ipswitch.com [156.21.1.21] by mail.pixel8.net with SMTP; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:29:18 -0500 Received: from mail.keyconn.net [63.175.222.132] by list.ipswitch.com with ESMTP (SMTPD-9.20) id A3D60240; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:24:54 -0400 Received: from picard [63.175.74.17] by mail.keyconn.net (SMTPD32-7.07) id A3D5512004E; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:24:53 -0400 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:25:53 -0400 To: [email protected] From: K Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT: DNS Question In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-mxGuard-Info: Processed by obrian.keyconn.net using mxGuard v1.6.1 X-mxGuard-Spool-ID: e3d50512004ebfa6 X-mxGuard-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-mxGuard-Spam-Score: 0 X-mxGuard-Spam-Probability: CLEAN X-Note: This message has been scanned for spam and viruses by mxGuard for IMail (www.mxguard.com) Precedence: bulk Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [email protected] X-Rcpt-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-SmarterMail-Spam: SpamAssassin -6.5 [raw: -2.6], SPF_None 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/
