Export / Import all zone data

[Daniel McDonald]

On 2/14/13 1:46 PM, "Mailinglists" <mailinglists at wso.net> wrote:

> I'm looking to migrate all of the zone data from one installation of Bind to
> another...hardware move. One machine is very old but running a pretty modern
> version of Bind 9.6-ESV-R8. The other server is running Bind 9.8.2 and is in
> use, so I'm merging existing zone data with new data, although none of the
> zones will overlap.
> 
> The problem I see is that the actual zone files, the way they are structured,
> are in an old format. Bind 9.6 must still understand them, but I don't think
> they are structured the "proper" way. I was hopeful there was an export /
> import procedure whereby that process would sanitize the zone info and log any
> errors for manual fixing.

Just make the new server a slave of the old one, let it do zone transfers of
all of the old zones, then change the config on the new one from slave to
master.

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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281