Changing ip addresses for NS records

Jim McNamara jim.mcnamara at gmail.com
Tue May 31 21:06:49 UTC 2005


I did the same thing a few months ago. All you have to do is to notify
the registrar of the domain that the nameservers belong to, and of
course modify the nameserver addresses in BIND. If your nameservers
are

ns1.foobar.com
ns2.foobar.com
ns3.foobar.com=20

all you would need to do is go to your registrars website, modify the
IP addresses of the nameservers for foobar.com (name stays the same),
and modify the entries in the foobar.com zone on your master.

The SOA shouldn't be effected at all. The name of the box is staying
the same, ns1.foobar.com is still ns1.foobar.com, so the SOA will be
fine.

The only thing you should do (if possible) is to have the servers
answer queries at both the new and old IP addresses for some time,
that way if the registrar checks, you answer from the new address.

Peace,
Jim
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On 5/31/05, Bind Mailing List <bind_ml40 at telusquebec.net> wrote:
> We are an internet provider and we have 3 DNS that have authority for mor=
e than 2500 domains. We would like to change the 3 ip addresses of these DN=
S but we want to keep their names. We know that the registrars have records=
 of their names.
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> Do they have records of their ip addresses too (for these NS records)?
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> What do we have to do before changing theirs addresses?
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> Which steps do we have to follow to avoid any problems?
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> Do you know if the registrars can change these adresses for all of our do=
mains (soa) automatically?
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> What could arrive with the root servers?
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> The registrars are icann.org, cira.ca ...
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> Thanks a lot for your help!
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