running 2 instances of named?

Joakim Schramm joakim at humanet.se
Thu Feb 24 02:28:21 UTC 2000


Thanks Barry!

You sure is a hell of a rock for this group to lean on, my
acknowledgement to you and the way you share your knowledge to other
"helpless" souls!

/Joakim

Barry Margolin skrev:
> 
> In article <38B1B0A4.4A1FD9E2 at humanet.se>,
> Joakim Schramm  <joakim at humanet.se> wrote:
> >Huu, you mean just have 2 identical zonefiles, just differ the domain
> >name? I know this can be done, but what about the
> >0.0.0.127.in-addr-arpa. zone file? Can I list records for both domains
> >there, A and/or NS?
> 
> Huh?  That zone file should just contain an entry for "localhost":
> 
> 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.  PTR  localhost.
> 
> Nothing about your domain needs to be in there, and it doesn't need to be
> changed as you migrate from currdomain.com to newdomain.com.
> 
> >I've got into my mind that this zonefile in some reflect the FQDN of the
> >box, but I might got that wrong.
> 
> You do.
> 
> >What I want is simply this: now all my virtual domains have their
> >pointer to ns.currdomain.com on ip 1.2.3.4 and I will change their
> >pointer to ns.newdomain.com on ip 1.2.3.4 (all fictive data ofcause),
> >but need to have the new ns up before so change can take place smoothly
> >without disturbance for the virtual domain owners. The currdomain.com
> >will then "retire" as ns, but continue live as an ordinary virtual
> >domain, just serving web and mail for that domain.
> 
> Since the IP address isn't changing, the name doesn't really matter.  All
> that matters is that other servers can follow the chain from the NS records
> of the domains to the IP address of the server.
> 
> --
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