Move primary server role to another server with MS NT 4.0 DNS

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9iv0og$413 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Greg Winkler <Greg_Winkler at huntsman.com> wrote:
>We've relocated our DNS servers to a new data center. I would like to move
>the primary server role from the old DNS servers to the new. I'm using MS
>NT 4.0 as the DNS server. What must be done to accomplish this? It seems
>that it is possible by simply updating the zone properties in DNS manager.
>But that seems to be too easy. Any thing else that must be considered ( I
>know I have to update the domain registrations with my registrar). I have
>multiple (more than one) secondary servers that retrieve updates from the
>current primary.

You need to change the NS records in the zone, change the primary address
on the secondary servers, and update the domain registrations.

And if you're doing any reverse domains, you need to notify your ISP so
they can change the delegations.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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