From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 24 23:24:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from akira.lanfear.com (akira.lanfear.com [208.12.11.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49AC937B406 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:24:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcw@lanfear.com) Received: from c1854262a (c1854262-a.sttln1.wa.home.com [24.255.90.101]) by akira.lanfear.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA45716 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:24:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcw@lanfear.com) Message-ID: <000701c12d2e$97fe1040$0200000a@redmond.corp.microsoft.com> From: "Marc Wandschneider" To: Subject: Migrating a server? Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:24:28 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello! i hope this isn't too obvious a question, but i've been having some trouble with this, so i'm hoping some people might have some insight into the matter. i've got a server that serves both DNS and mail for my domains. i want to replace this with a new server in a new facility. it's easy to set up the new server with named and all that for the new IP address(es), but i am not sure how to migrate: a. user accounts and passwords b. sendmail configuration (old server is freebsd 3.4, new is 4.3) c. i don't know to test this stuff out, because the new server is set up to be the DNS for itself, but won't a lot of programs get confused about reverse DNS mappings, etc ... ? any suggestions on a good way to do this? really DNS, user accounts with password, and, of course, mail, are all that i want to move over. any pointers would be appreciated. thanks, marc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message