Primary DNS crashed, how to get it back up?

[Mark Andrews]

> On Tue Mar 07, 2006 at 16:03:37 -0800, Patrick Calkins wrote:
> >The other day, my primary bind machine suffered a hard drive crash. I 
> >have a secondary running, but how do I go about getting a new primary 
> >with all the info in it? Can I install a fresh copy of bind, and make it 
> >get the info from the secondary?? How does one normally handle this kind 
> >of problem??
> >
> Typically, one has backup tapes.

	You can get the zone content (but not comment) by transfering
	the zones from the "secondary".  As for the list of zone
	copy over the named.conf and adjust as necessary.

		dig axfr zone @secondary

	Mark
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