Changing the address of a primary name server

[Thomas Schulz]

In article <blken7$207q$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Jim Hatfield  <jim.hatfield at insignia.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:50:49 GMT, schulz at adi.com (Thomas Schulz) wrote:
>
>>I hope that this is not too far off topic, but I expect that the people
>>here will know the answer.  We are currently providing the primary name
>>server for our domain with our internet service provider providing the
>>secondary name server.  We will soon be changing to a new service
>>provider and the IP address of our primary name server will have to
>>be changed.  The last time I did this, the whole job could be done
>>through Network Solutions.  It appears that this has changed.  Looking
>>at their web based account management tool, I can see how to specify
>>which name servers are to be used for a domain, but not how to specify
>>the IP address that a name server lives at.  How does one modify the
>>record for a registered domain name server?
>
>I have always found it easier to use new names. For instance with
>UUnet I had nsuu.isinc.insignia.com, when changing to PacBell I
>first created nspb.isinc.insignia.com with the address I knew the
>machine would have on the new network, then flipped the NS records
>for all my domains from one to the other just before changing circuits.
>Since I had a second name server at another site which stayed up
>during the change there was little disruption.
>-- 
>Jim Hatfield

Following up on my own post.  After going to the Account Manager and logging
in, look at the left menu bar and click on "Manage Host Servers".  It is the
last item in the menu bar.  The more obvious "Edit DNS" button will not let
you modify an existing name server.
-- 
Tom Schulz
schulz at adi.com