Against the better judgement of many, I've decided to replace my name servers, two aging PIIs (ns1 & ns2) with a new dual pentium III. Here's my notes and questions before the project. Any comments? Ideas of things not quite right?
Setting up ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com on one box: ns1.example.com #.#.#.188 ns2.example.com #.#.#.178 (1) install RH 8.0 as DNS server (2) when prompted for hostname enter: ns1.example.com (2) when prompted for ip address enter: #.#.#.188 (3) when prompted for name servers enter: 127.0.0.1 as primary and #.#.#.178 as secondary (4) copy over /var/named/named.conf and /var/named/*.zone from old ns1.example.com Q. The current ns1 is running RH 7.2. I'm loading the new ns1 with RH 8.0. Can I just copy over named.conf and the zone files and expect BIND/named to act correctly? (5) set up ip alias interface: /sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 #.#.#.188 /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 #.#.#.178 (6) set up ip routes /sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.1 /sbin/route add -net #.#.#.188 dev eth0 /sbin/route add -net #.#.#.178 dev eth0 Q. do I need a "route default gw" here? why? (7) put 5 & 6 into /etc/rc.d/rc.local so if machine gets rebooted, settings will persist. So, if I unplug the current ns1 & ns2 and plug in the new ns1/2 will everything work like before? TIA! Ryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
