On 14 February 2013 19:46, Mailinglists <mailingli...@wso.net> wrote: > I'm looking to migrate all of the zone data from one installation of Bind to > another...hardware move. One machine is very old but running a pretty modern > version of Bind 9.6-ESV-R8. The other server is running Bind 9.8.2 and is in > use, so I'm merging existing zone data with new data, although none of the > zones will overlap. > > The problem I see is that the actual zone files, the way they are structured, > are in an old format. Bind 9.6 must still understand them, but I don't think > they are structured the "proper" way. I was hopeful there was an export / > import procedure whereby that process would sanitize the zone info and log > any errors for manual fixing. > > Either this process is dead simple and so nobody documents it or it is all > but impossible so nobody documents it...I'm not sure. But an hour of web > searches hasn't turned up much, just lots of info about migrating to or from > a Windows based DNS to BIND. > > A helpful point in the right direction would be appreciated. > > Thank you.
If you allow zone transfers to a.n.other machine you should be able to "dig @nameserver zone.name.com axfr > zone.name.com.db" to perform a zone transfer and dump it to a file. I believe the standard dig output is compatible with BIND so you can use the output file as the new BIND zone file. Steve _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
