DNS IP migration

[Brianh]

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In article <EwKM3.767$854.30840 at burlma1-snr2>, Barry Margolin
<barmar at bbnplanet.com> wrote:

> In article <111019991553350033%brianh at primenet.com>,
> Brianh  <brianh at primenet.com> wrote:
> >Tell me if the following makes sense.
> >Right now my domain is pointing to the same IP number as my mail. I
> >want to separate the IP numbers AND I want to migrate both to a Sun box
> >(DNS and mail are currently running on the same Mac). 
> >
> >Should I set up named on Solaris to act as a primary now with a new IP
> >and then point the Mac DNS app at the Sun? Then I change the records at
> 
> By this I assume you mean configure the Mac as a slave DNS server, using
> the Sun as its master, right?

Mac as secondary, yes. Of course, MacDNS will not act as a secondary so
I would have to download the trial version of something like QuickDNS.
Unless, god forbid, someone here would budget for a PC that I could run
Linux on.
 
> >Internic from the Mac IP to the Sun IP? After a week, I shut down the
> >Mac after I install that IP on the Sun with the new mail server?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >If that makes sense, here's the possible complication. MacDNS does not
> >act as a secondary DNS (hey, it's free). 
> 
> In that case, just duplicate the data manually on the Mac.  There's nothing
> technically wrong with having two master servers for a domain, it just
> means that you can't use automated zone transfers to keep them in sync, you
> have to use some other mechanism.

I think this is an important point I missed. I was worried that having
2 servers acting as authoritative for my domain would cause problems,
but I guess not as no one would even be paying attention to the new one
until I changed my domain records with internic and then, at that
point, I'm pretty much gold.