Moving auth master servers.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <d4m9qa$e1l$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Keith Woodworth <kwoody at citytel.net> wrote:

> One question I have is the SOA record and its probably basic as hell but I
> need clarification.
> 
> Old server was NS1 so SOA looks like this:
> 
> $TTL 86400
> @               IN      SOA     ns1.citytel.net
> 
> New server is NS3 so SOA needs to be changed thus:
> 
> $TTL 86400
> @               IN      SOA     ns3.citytel.net.
> 
> NS records on all zones are being changed to ns3.citytel.net. Is this the
> correct way to move servers?

Unless you make use of dynamic DNS updates, it's unlikely that anything 
cares what server is listed as the master in the SOA record.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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