BIND to MSDNS on same box

[Walt Brannon]

I did a similar thing months ago.  I now have three MS DNS servers.  Yes,
MS DNS can read the same zone files.  Your plan seems good, but do you not
have more than one DNS server?   Perhaps you should have more than one and
"wak" things over.  

1) Configure MS as secondary to a BIND server
2) transfer all zones.
3) change MS DNS to Primary and kill bind.
4) configure other MS server as secondary to first.

Walt


At 12:30 PM 12/7/99 -0800, Jace D. wrote:
>Hi all...
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>I have a quick question regarding DNS on an NT server:
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>I have an NT box with BIND V4.9.6 installed and running, providing DNS
>service for several live zones. I'd like to change over to MS DNS for
>administration purposes, and MS DNS is currently installed on the same
>machine, with no zones configured. Now, logic tells me that it'd be a less
>than brilliant idea to have both BIND and MSDNS running at the same time on
>the same box, particularly if each service had conflicting zone info for the
>same domain. I'm trying to determine the best approach to moving over from
>BIND to MSDNS on the same box. I'm thinking I should first (a) make sure
>MSDNS service is Stopped, and then (b) configure the necessary zones in
>MSDNS. Then, (c) I should stop the BIND service, and lastly Start MS
>Service. I'm I correct on this? Does BIND and MSDNS service use the same
>files?
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>Thanks for any clues...
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>jaced at jaced.com
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