Changing secondary DNS server to the primary

[Kevin Darcy]

sudhakar wrote:

> Hi,
> I need to convert a secondary internal DNS server running Bind 8.2 on Linux
> 6.2 kernel 2.4.2 to  primary DNS server and bring down the primary DNS
> server.
> Is it ok if I copy all the files in /etc/namedb from the primary DNS server
> and put them in the secondary DNS server and reload bind.
> The primary DNS server also runs the same OS.
> I'd appreciate if you gurus can give me your suggestions on this issue.

Of course, you'd need to redefine all of those zones in named.conf. They need
to go from "type slave" to "type master", and the "masters" clauses should be
removed.


- Kevin