Re: migrating DNS server from NT to Linux.

[John Holland <john@xxxxxxxxx>]

Samir,

Don't take this as the best or the most direct way to do this, but this is 
how I would attack the problem.

Create entries for each of the zones in named.conf as slaves:

zone "kazoocmh.org" {
         type slave;
         file "s/db.kazoocmh.org";
         masters {
                 10.11.1.3;
         };
         allow-query { any; };
};

Obviously change the domain name, file path, and master DNS server ip 
address.  This will cause named to do a zone transfer of each of the 
domains into their respective files.

Then change "slave" to "master" in named.conf.

(More directly, do a zone transfer using named-xfer for each of the 500 
domains.)


Edit each of the domain config files, changing the NS and SOA records to 
match the new nameserver.

ndc reload and named will now be acting as the primary DNS server for those 
zones.


>I need to move my existing DNS server from NT 4.0 to Linux Red Hat 6.2.
>Are there any tools that would automate the process or do I have to do the
>whole thing manully. If I do it manually I dono how long it would take cause
>I have more than 500 zones on the NT's DNS server. Please leme know if there
>is any easier solution to this mess. Thankx and HAPPY NEW YEAR to all
>Kalamazoo Linux Users.