Re: [cobalt-users] OT: RaQ4i: DNS

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Richard Abrams wrote:
>
> Probably a stupid question (for which I apologise) but I can't seem to find
> information on the web anywhere that answers my question specifically.
>
> We're moving to a new office/ISP/IP block currently and have gotten everything
> successfully transferred with the exception of our DNS server. All the records
> are currently sat on the old server (pridns.artejano.com) and need transferring
> to the new server (pri.artejanodbh.co.uk). I've gotten pri.artejanodbh.co.uk
> registered as a name server without any problems but now need to understand what
> is required to transfer all our DNS records across.
>
> Is it simply a question of duplicating all the records to the new server and
> then updating the primary name server in the SOA record, or do I need to be
> contacting the registrants for updates?

Copy the records file (/etc/named/records) to the new server.
You might want to save the current records file on the new server,
just in case they are slightly different.


Gerald
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