Re: DNS server move
From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/24/04
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:27:56 -0400
In news:34778221-9395-43A9-9C68-BA9F55E3DE7E@microsoft.com,
Chris Popescu <Chris Popescu@discussions.microsoft.com> posted their
thoughts, then I offered mine
> Hi,
>
> I intend to move our Windows 2000 multi-zones master DNS server named
> dns1.domain.com to another server named dns2.domain.com
> but will keep the same IP.
>
> Name need to be changed and dns1.domain.com will no longer be used.
> In this
> way if something goes wrong at migration time I can just plug it back
> till
> the problem is fixed. I do not want to unregister dns1 server from AD
> for
> next couple of weeks.
>
> I intend to follow http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=280061 which
> seems to
> work fine.
>
> However all records in existing zone records and in slave servers are
> using
> dns1.domain.com pointing to that IP and not dns2.domain.com.
>
> At migration time with MS procedure I will have the IP but the name
> server records for this DNS will be for dns1 and not for dns2.
>
> Is this ok for this slave servers and Active Directory? Isn't enought
> to use
> the same IP of dns1? Do I need to perform also a search and replace
> in all
> zone records?
>
> Can you provide more details?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Chris P.
Just go into the zone properties and change the nameserver name under the
nameserver tab. Youy won't need to do a search and replace, since all it is
is just one entry to change the name on.
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