OT: DNS transferHi Sharyn,

If you set up your zone as a secondary and they will allow you to pull the 
zone, then you can receive it that way, and switch the zone back to primary 
once you have it.

If not, you can ask them to send it to you.  Otherwise, the only way to do it 
is to create it from scratch (or by copying another of your zone files and 
changing as appropriate) or use whatever GUI provided for the DNS server you 
run.

Unless you are concerned about records you would not see from dig, you can 
quickly and easily set it up from scratch or by using one of your other domains 
as a template.

Darin.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Sharyn Schmidt 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 7:09 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] OT: DNS transfer


Hi, 

Sorry for the OT newbie question.. 

I'm taking over the hosting of email and DNS for the domain Ibrandsinc.com. Up 
until now, I've only created a zone from scratch.

I'm trying to set up their zone on my nameserver. At the moment, all I want to 
do is duplicate the existing zone. What is the best way to get a copy of the 
zone file? I don't plan on changing anything until the internet knows that my 
nameserver is their primary one now.

If I run a dnsstuff report on Ibrandsinc.com, it looks like all the zone info 
is there. Is this all I need? Obviously I have to make the nameserver change 
with the registar but I don't want to do that until I have the zone set up on 
my server.

Is there a way to actually get a copy of the zone file itself, directly from 
the nameserver? 

TIA! 
Sharyn 

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