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Date:      Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:58:32 +0100
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?Michael_Lyngb=F8l?= <michael@lyngbol.dk>
To:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
Cc:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: relocating primary DNS server
Message-ID:  <20010114215832.A1280@tigerdyr.lyngbol.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20010114154840.B9969@puck.firepipe.net>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:48:40PM -0500
References:  <20010114142441.U65118@bonsai.knology.net> <20010114154840.B9969@puck.firepipe.net>

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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



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