From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jan 14 12:58:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from tigerdyr.lyngbol.dk (tigerdyr.lyngbol.dk [193.162.142.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C3C37B402 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:58:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by tigerdyr.lyngbol.dk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D862D98B9; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:58:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:58:32 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Michael_Lyngb=F8l?= To: Will Andrews Cc: Steve Price , isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: relocating primary DNS server Message-ID: <20010114215832.A1280@tigerdyr.lyngbol.dk> References: <20010114142441.U65118@bonsai.knology.net> <20010114154840.B9969@puck.firepipe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010114154840.B9969@puck.firepipe.net>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:48:40PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 4.2-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:48:40PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > > Are there any tricks for moving (changing the IP address of) > > a primary DNS server for a domain? I am helping a friend move > > his operations from one datacenter to another. I've tried > > everything I can think except changing the record with Network > > Solutions. I thought I'd ask the experts on this list if they > > had any words of wisdom before I went that far. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > Well Steve, > > I think you are screwed if your friend's domain is registered with > Network Solutions. They are not timely with domain server IP updates in > my experience. Last time I tried to do it (admittedly about a year or > two ago), it took them three or four weeks to make it effective in their > root servers. And in some cases it took six weeks. If your registered as eighter Administrative, Billing, or Technical Contact with a valid email address you could use http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/makechanges/ (select 'transfer my Domain Name to another ISO') It works quite nice. > If possible, your friend could leave a machine on the old datacenter > network with the current IP, and have it trust updates from the new DNS > server. Then send in an update request to NSI, and pray that they'll > change it soon. > > I really really hate NSI, needless to say. :-) Well, using the above interface it isn't that hard. /Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message