RE: [cobalt-users] changing dns without GUI

["Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions" <michele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Use SED to do a bulk change. The RAQ GUI is junk when it comes to DNS -
command line is about 100 x faster.

If you need assistance please contact me offlist

Mr. Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
http://www.blacknightsolutions.ie/
http://www.search.ie/
Tel. + 353 (0)59 9137101
Lowest price domains in Ireland

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jale
> Sent: 16 January 2004 14:35
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] changing dns without GUI
>
>
> is there a not ridiculously complex way to make dns changes with the
> slow-hog method via the GUI.
>
> Here is the full list of what I need to do ... mostly one site at a time,
> but the GUI takes a few minutes for each site for me to complete the
> changes - this is a RAQ3i.
>
> 1) Change all TTL's to 3600 while I migrate my sites from one box
> to another.
> 2) Modify the MX record from www.domain.com to mail.domain.com
> 3) Add a new A Record to each site for mail.domain.com
> 4) Modify the A Records for each site to point to the new server
>
> After all is done I'll retire the Raq3i and take up DNS on the new box.
>
> Thanks for any input,
> Jale
>
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