Migrating from W2K DNS to Bind
Barry Finkel
b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov
Mon May 2 14:23:42 UTC 2005
"Ronald I. Nutter" <ronald_nutter at georgetowncollege.edu> wrote:
>Thanks to Cricket and others who have answered my questions recently. I
>am thinking about taking on another project - getting rid of W2K for
>external DNS. I have to keep the server running W2K for another reason
>but want to change to Bind. The W2K box is my primary and the linux box
>is secondary. To minimize downtime, I am trying to figure out the best
>way to make the change. Should I make the linux box which is a
>secondary DNS, the primary and then uninstall DNS on the W2K box,
>installed Bind and bring it up as a secondary ? Any suggestions on
>making this kind of migration ?
Which DNS server(s) do your clients use for DNS resolution? If they
are using the W2k server as their preferred DNS server and do not have
a second DNS server comfigured in their TCP/IP, then any downtime on
the W2k DNS server is bad.
You can convert your BIND slave to the master via a change to the
BIND configuration file. After the BIND box is the master, then you can
take the W2k box offine to DNS and install BIND on it.
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Barry S. Finkel
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