From: Barry Finkel (b19141@ACHILLES.CTD.ANL.GOV)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 17:01:53 EDT
>You would probably be better off just setting up you new box as a
>primary (You can have 2 primary servers, you just have to make updates
>to each of them when you add/change something).
If you do not care about the order of records in a zone, you could
set up the new server as a slave server for the zones, get them
transferred (via the DNS zone transfer protocol), and then change the
new server from slave to master. If you have only a handful of small
zones, FTPing a tarball of the zones might make more sense.
>It also makes a difference what software you use. I assume you are
>looking at BIND since that is usually the defacto standard. Before you
>make any final decisions on BIND (if you have a choice), I really
>recommend taking a look at djbdns. Just about everyone that has tried
>djbdns and has any experience with BIND will tell you that they will
>never use BIND again if they have any choice at all.
>
>djbdns links:
>http://cr.yp.to/
>http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
>http://lifewithdjbdns.com/
I do not want to start a flame war, but from my subscriptions to
bind-users@isc.org
bind9-users@isc.org
I get a different viewpoint regarding the djbdns software. I have not
used djbdns, so I can not make any personal comparison.
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Barry S. Finkel
Computing and Instrumentation Solutions Division
Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277
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