Migrating DNS from Solaris to Linux.....

[Barry Margolin]

In article <8h369r$8ir$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <dshuff at my-deja.com> wrote:
>At work I am responsible for migrating our DHCP and DNS servers over to
>Linux from Windows NT and Solaris respectively.  My question centers
>around the actual method used to bring up the new Linux DNS server and
>retiring the Solaris server while maintaining DNS resolutions.  When I
>bring the new server online, can I just copy over all the zone files and
>the named.conf file to the new server and start it that way or do I need
>to bring up the new server as a slave to the first and then do a zone
>transfer.??  If the latter is more appropriate, how do I change the new
>server from a slave to a master after I take the old server offline.??
>We would eventually like to end up with two Linux servers running DNS
>as a master and slave.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>Oh, the OS's are Solaris 7 and Redhat 6.2 running bind 8.2.2.

Copying the files is a fine way to do it.  If you do zone transfers, you'll
lose any comments you have in the zone files.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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