DNS Zone change question 2

[AnotherITguy]

Hello,


We have a DC (Alpha) that hosts a couple of DNS primary forward zones, and we would like to decommission it. We also have a few other DCs that host these zones as secondaries. So, my question is, can I just "Change" the zone type of these forward zones on one of the other DCs to "Primary" and bring down Alpha? Or do I need to recreate the forward zones as primaries on one of the other DCs? Do I need to stop the DNS service on these DCs when I do this? Any help would be appreciated! =)


Thank you,


Jay

 

[avilov]

you can just change the zone type on the other DNS server. don't forget to update all secondaries with the new primary server IP address andd allow replication/notification to all secondaries on the new primary . also if that is an "external" zone don't forget to update your zone info at registrar.

 

[elgrandeperro]

We have done this all the time (reverse the concept of primary and secondary). Just remember that the the secondary file is pretty terse, so if you have comments and formatting/sorting in the primary file, that will all be lost. On the other hand, the secondary file is also more easily machine readable for a autoformat program.

gene

 

[AnotherITguy]

It worked! Thank you both!


Jay