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Re: [cobalt-developers] Global DNS changes (fwd)



On Monday, August 13, 2001, at 08:49 AM, Steve Werby wrote:

"Peter Dickson" <peter.dickson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We will soon be moving our Cobalt RaQ2 onto a new network with new IP
address and new host/domainname.


The RaQ2 stores all DNS record in /etc/named/records and uses a script
/usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/dns/index.cgi to parse the file and build the zone files used by DNS which are the pri* files in /etc/named/. I'd suggest
backing up the records file, then editing it and running the script.

c)  brief checklist to ensure we don't miss anything out! :)

You may want to change the TTL settings in the zone files so that servers that respect TTL will check back more frequently to check if the DNS records have changed. In the RaQ2 I believe you'll either have to edit all of the pri* files manually to make that change (yes, somewhat cumbersome) or you'll have to first edit the script I'd advised you run to change the TTL (and any
other SOA variables you need to change, consult a DNS reference) before
running the script.

Hope that gets you started.

Thank you Steve for that great response because I am going through something very similar to what Peter is going through. I just have a question about moving the names over to a raq2. After I copied the /etc/named/records over to the new raq2 it keeps showing some ip's in the domains that I have to point some random mx records and such to. They all show up in the /etc/named/records as:

soa - 208.176.121.91/24 hostname.domain.com::admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:10800:3600:604800:86400 -

should I delete these out or just keep these in there. When I create records through the raq2 gui it never adds these I believe.

Thanks again,

Jake Smith