Re: Change my primary DNS server safely...

2009-03-03 Thread Thomas Manson
ning for a few days you can > stop BIND on the old one (to reduce load on it). > > -Original Message- > From: Thomas Manson [mailto:dev.mansontho...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 10:06 AM > To: Jeff Lightner > Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Subject: Re

RE: Change my primary DNS server safely...

2009-02-27 Thread Jeff Lightner
Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Change my primary DNS server safely... Hi Jeff, Actually, I've Postfix/Apache2/Bind (primary DNS) on the same machine which is hosted by one company. I want to dedicate a server to be the primary DNS. This server is hosted by another company. (the

Re: Change my primary DNS server safely...

2009-02-27 Thread Robert Spangler
On Friday 27 February 2009 10:08, Denny Jodeit wrote: > It's not exactly 'proper' practice, but I have successfully turned down > the caching time to 300 seconds. Do this a week ahead of your planned > server move. I would not suggest turning down the TTL's a week ahead of time. This will only

RE: Change my primary DNS server safely...

2009-02-27 Thread Denny Jodeit
isc.org Subject: RE: Change my primary DNS server safely... Not sure where the trepidation comes in here. Hopefully you ARE running a slave server as well so if the primary isn't reachable the slave would resolve lookups until you fixed any problem. Here we've moved our servers from o

Re: Change my primary DNS server safely...

2009-02-27 Thread Thomas Manson
Hi Jeff, Actually, I've Postfix/Apache2/Bind (primary DNS) on the same machine which is hosted by one company. I want to dedicate a server to be the primary DNS. This server is hosted by another company. (the first server will be re installed soon but will stay in the original hosting company

RE: Change my primary DNS server safely...

2009-02-27 Thread Jeff Lightner
Not sure where the trepidation comes in here. Hopefully you ARE running a slave server as well so if the primary isn't reachable the slave would resolve lookups until you fixed any problem. Here we've moved our servers from one network provider to another so had to change the IPs of the master an