Newbie Question: How to edit a host IP address

[Samad Agha]

Thanks so much guys: Beavis, Todd, Brian, and whoever read my post and
thought about replying. I'll read the manual suggested and try this change
today, see what happens.

You all have a terrific weekend.

Samad

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Brian Wilson <bfwilson at doit.wisc.edu>wrote:

>   On Aug 20, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Samad Agha wrote:
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>  Hey All,
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> Overnight I have become the new DNS Admin for City of Glendale. Someone
> just sent me an email telling me that our ns1 has been reporting a wrong IP
> for one of his computers in the past couple of days. If you guys remember, I
> had the issue with our ns2 not being able to resolve rim.com &
> tmo.blackberry.net only yesterday. That problem was fixed by bouncing the
> in.named daemon on ns2. And now ns1 putting out wrong IP for a host name;
> what's going on? This time I'll try to include some useful info:
>
> root at bmw:/ # uname -a
> SunOS bmw 5.8 Generic_117350-25 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210
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>
> Just an FYI from a Sun admin - Solaris 8 (aka SunOS 5.8) isn't getting new
> patches from Oracle/Sun - and hasn't been since I think April 2008 or 2009.
>  At some point you'll want to upgrade to Solaris 10 (or some other OS).  I
> doubt that's your problem though.
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> root at bmw:/ # /usr/sbin/in.named -v
> in.named BIND 8.2.4 Tue Jul 13 06:04:59 PDT 2004
>         Generic Patch-5.8-July 2004
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> I haven't had the chance to research and see how widespread is this issue
> (ns1 reporting a wrong IP for a host). Until further research I'll assume,
> and hope, is only unique to this one host. Two questions please:
>
> 1- Can you guys recommend a good DNS Admin book/website/paper, so I can
> start educating myself and hopefully soon I won't have to trouble you good
> guys/gals. And maybe even be able to contribute to the list.
>
> 2- How do I go about changing this IP on ns1? Will it automatically
> propagate to ns2 or do I have to do it on ns2 as well?
>
> Again, many thanks in advance for your time and assistance. You guys/gals
> and this list really works. Can't wait to be able to contribute to it soon;
> maybe I could do dns 101 type questions :-)
>
> Samad
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