Cutting over primary DNS to new server - HELP!!!

[linuxtricks]

Hi.

I have a primary DNS server in one site... and a secondary DNS server in another site.

The primary DNS server is running BIND4.9.7REL on a Windows NT 4.0. I am looking to replace that DNS server with a Microsoft DNS server running on Windows NT 4.0 Server.
(I want to also replace the secondary DNS server in the other location as well... but will deal with that at a later date).

So far, I've gotten a new DNS server up and running to act as a secondary to the primary DNS server. All of the zone files have been copied over, but I noticed that the new secondary DNS server does not have reverse-arpa zone files - as the primary DNS server DOES have these zone files.

[red]Does a secondary DNS server *not* use reverse-arpa zone files... because the master takes care of this?[/red]

I need to find out what to do about the reverse-arpa files before I can go on and PROMOTE the secondary DNS server to become the PRIMARY DNS server.

Then, at the other location, I can simply make another secondary DNS server to replace the older unix DNS server.

Please help! This has been an on-going project that I must resolve quickly! I HATE BEING A NEWBIE!
-grumpy smurf

 

[StarTAC]

what u need to do is setup the in-addr.arpa domain in your DNS config file.. am a UNIX man, so am not sure what it's called in Windows NT, but i do know there must be some kind of config file that has the zones to serve, including the in-addr.arpa...

so, what u should do is setup the in-addr.arpa zone in the DNS config file, and then make a zone transfer of that file to your secondary name server, like u did the rest.... it should work then...

however, the problem is see is that if u are going to be making zone transfers from your primary server, it will have to be connected to the network all the time, even though it won't directly serve the domain, otherwise u may not be able to make any zone transfers from it to the secondary server, in case it does make a poll for that data.. this will cause your zones to timeout and may not be served, as they won't have been updated, or checked to be current...

AKNIT

 

[linuxtricks]

aknit44,

It worked!

I created the files as: x.x.x.in-addr.arpa and the transfer occured immediately.

Initially, I was only using the IP address by itself without the in-addr.arpa.

Thank you for understanding my question, and replying. =)
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