Change my primary DNS server safely...

[Thomas Manson]

Hi Jeff,

  Actually, I've Postfix/Apache2/Bind (primary DNS) on the same
machine which is hosted by one company.

  I want to dedicate a server to be the primary DNS. This server is
hosted by another company. (the first server will be re installed soon
but will stay in the original hosting company).

  The secondary DNS is already a dedicated server.

  So my new primary DNS  is ready and the old server will still be
running (at least for the apache2 service).
  Should I let BIND running on the old server or stop it ?  (whould it
be annoying if the old ip still answer to query ?)

Regards,
Thomas.



On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 14:50, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> Not sure where the trepidation comes in here.  Hopefully you ARE running
> a slave server as well so if the primary isn't reachable the slave would
> resolve lookups until you fixed any problem.
>
> Here we've moved our servers from one network provider to another so had
> to change the IPs of the master and the slave at the Network registrars.
> We did those one at a time.  That is to say we first did the slave and
> once we were sure it was resolving correctly and had allowed time for
> everyone's caches to clear (we waited 3 days/72 hours) then we moved the
> master.
>
> We've also completely replaced both our primary and slave by installing
> new servers and setting them with the IPs.  There again we did it by
> doing one at a time.  For those there was no propagation time since the
> IP stayed the same.
>
> If you're simply moving your master to a new IP (as the outside world
> sees it) then you'll have to allow time for the caches to clear as we
> did.  If you're simply moving it to a new IP internally then your
> network folks should be able to NAT that IP to the same external IP your
> prior server had.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Manson
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:04 PM
> To: bind-users at lists.isc.org
> Subject: Change my primary DNS server safely...
>
> Hello,
>
>  I need to change the primary DNS server which manage hundreds of
> domains.
>
>  I've setup the new machine so that it has the correct named
> configuration for each domains (script generated).
>
>  I plan to change the IP behind the ns0.mydomain.com so that it
> points to the new machine.
>
>  As I feel it's a bit risky to do that, if you have any suggestion,
> I'll be glad to hear it.
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas.
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