Switching dns servers

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Wed Jun 23 06:27:28 UTC 1999


In named.boot, keep the zone info for localhost and 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa
if you have it. Then add the new server as a forwarder and use slave
mode.

Michael

Steeve wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently running bind 4.x on an HPUX 9.01 box that
> will be decomissioned as the DNS server at the end of
> the year.  Today I got and setup bind 8.2.1 on a Linux
> box that will replace the HPUX server.  I would like to
> continue using the HPUX server but would like it to
> do lookups on the new server.
> 
> Could some kind soul tell me how to configure the old
> named server to use the new server for lookups?  How
> do I setup named.boot to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> steeve
> 
> --
> :wq



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