Upgrading a secondary zone to a primary

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Tom Cahill - 16 Jul 2003 15:28 GMT

Hello,

I have a situation where my company has replaced their IT person and he
was very heavily involved in the DNS management. It appears that he had his
own DNS server acting as a primary zone for our server. Because of this I
cannot add new hosts to our server. I would like to break away from his
server all together and have our server be a primary. I attempted this in
DNS Manager but it warned that it could cause name resolution problems in my
domain. I am not a DNS savvy person at all and would appreciate any help
anyone could provide. Thank you in advance!

TC

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Thor Kottelin - 16 Jul 2003 23:27 GMT

> I have a situation where my company has replaced their IT person and he
> was very heavily involved in the DNS management. It appears that he had his
> own DNS server acting as a primary zone for our server. Because of this I
> cannot add new hosts to our server. I would like to break away from his
> server all together and have our server be a primary.

You can easily change a slave into a master. Make sure that the zones on the
slave you are "promoting" are current. Unless your IT person was running a
"hidden" master, ensure that the NS records are updated both in your own
zones and those of your parent domains. Also, remember to configure your
other slaves to pull zone transfers from the new master. Update zone
transfer permissions, firewall rules etc. as appropriate.

Thor

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