How to "Demote" a Primary Name Server to a Backup???? 1

[quattro5vt]

I have an R/S 6000 which is currently setup as my Primary Name Server and I need to demote to a Backup Name Server. The new Primary will be a Windows 2000 Server (I need to do this in order to run Active Directory which requires the PDC to also be Primary Name Server and be authoritative for the zone). Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Chapter11]

That's not exactly an OS function, but a BIND configuration matter.

You'll need to be tweaking named.conf (or named.boot depending on what version of BIND you're running), and any clients that directly refer to the RS/6000 for name resolution.

1) Get all DNS working on your win2k machine.
2) Modify your named.conf file to have your zones secondary instead of primary.

Assuming you're running BIND8...

Replace this:
[tt]
zone "myzone.com" IN {
type master;
file "/var/named/zones/myzone.com.zone";
};
[/tt]
with this:
[tt]
zone "myzone.com" IN {
type slave;
masters { 192.168.0.1; };
};
[/tt]