DNS server migration

[Curtis Maurand]

Ensure that your zone files are compatible with the new version.  See the
info on migration in the docs folder.  There are some pretty hefty warnings
in there.

Curtis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Buenaventura" <andrew at infinitymalls.com>
To: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 4:41 AM
Subject: DNS server migration


>
> I am currently testing Bind in a test server.  Should this work correctly,
I
> plan to plug the test server to the internet and shutdown the old server.
> Below are the steps that I plan to take:
>
> a. Configure a new DNS server
> b. Copy all settings and DB files from the old to the new DNS server
> c. Give the new DNS server the same IP and hostname with that of the old
> server.
> d. Shutdown the old server
> e. plug the new server to the network.
>
> Did I miss anything?  Do you think the new server will work properly?  Any
> suggestions to make sure that there is very minimal downtime?
>