From: Barry Finkel (b19141@ACHILLES.CTD.ANL.GOV)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 12:23:18 EDT
>The way it's set up, there are a number of slave
>servers running, and all the clients (80 or so) point
>to the slaves. So, I was thinking I could maybe just
>tar off all the DNS data, ftp it over, untar it, and
>then have the NT admins (who manage the slaves) change
>where they point.
>
>Would this work? If so, do I just need to grab the
>files in /var/named and /etc/named (I can only see
>those two directories as having any DNS data in them).
Set up the new box as a slave.
Copy the named.conf file (maybe with changes) from the old slave.
Tell the master about the new slave; add an NS record to the zones.
The zones should transfer automatically to the new slave.
Have the 80 clients point to the new slave.
Decomission the old slave.
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Barry S. Finkel
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