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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

9068.0. "change ip address on name server" by OSLLAV::SVEINN_P (Svein Nordrum) Fri Mar 07 1997 08:17

DIGITAL UNIX V3.2

Have to change the ip adress on a primary name server, which files
beside /etc/hosts and /etc/rc.config should be modified ?
A short description would be appreciated.

thanks
-Svein
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9068.1CFSCTC::SMITHTom Smith MRO1-3/D12 dtn 297-4751Fri Mar 07 1997 10:4915
    If you mean that the host _is_ the primary DNS server for one or more
    domains, and you're changing its IP address, you've got _many_ changes
    to make on many hosts, including the named database and boot files in
    /etc/namedb, the named boot files on the secondaries, /etc/resolv.conf
    on all the clients, and many other files on the host itself, depending
    on what software you have installed. It's not a simple change,
    especially if your subnet is also changing, and in some cases it may be
    easier to just run the setup scripts all over again and re-install any
    layered software.
    
    If you mean only that the name server you _use_ has changed, just run
    bindsetup or edit /etc/resolv.conf, which is the only file that's
    important.                                                 
    
    -Tom