From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 23 5:35:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.beyondtech.net (mail.beyondtech.net [203.43.52.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF9F737B401 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 05:35:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ws1 ([203.43.52.134]) by mail.beyondtech.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA44004 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 02:34:26 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@redcentre.com) From: marcus@redcentre.com To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:34:50 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Changing IP address on DNS Message-ID: <3A6E151A.18701.35D373C@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Crist, thanks for your help - another question - I have the new IP address on the machine - how do I publish it so that it can be found from other networks? I tried: arp -s new_ip ether_addr pub but it returned the message cannot intuit interface index and type for new_ip any idea what is going wrong Marcus > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:55:48PM +1000, marcus@redcentre.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > just a question about migrating a DNS server (FreeBSD 4) to a new > > subnet. I thought that it may be possible to add a new IP address to > > a single interface card so that two subnets were running on the same > > interface. The DNS records could then be updated as appropriate, > > time allowed for replication and then the old subnet taken down - > > does this make sense? > > Yes. People do this all of the time. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message