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- From: jeremy@vsm.com.au
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Moving a DNS nameserver
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.152712.49@vsm.com.au>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 21:27:12 GMT
- Lines: 52
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- Hello, I would like some assistance with Digital's DNS please (version
- 1.1).
-
- At my present contract we are running DNS on a cluster of 3 VMS A5.5
- systems. DNS has been installed for about 12 months (before I arrived) and
- when I came onto the scene it was not working properly: a system trying to
- use DFS would intermitently crash the DNS, amongst other problems. I
- played with it for a while without much luck, and called Digital TSC. They
- played with it for a few days and everntually realised the machine running
- DNS (ie the DNS server) had changed its DECnet address. The TSC person
- edited/patched various files and made it good.
-
- Now we are installing a fourth machine, with its own system disk, and we
- want to move the DNS server function onto it, and remove DNS from the other
- cluster nodes. I read the DNS book and came up with this strategy:
-
- 1) Install DNS on the new machine, and specify NO when the installation
- procedure asks if this is a new namespace.
-
- 2) On the old nameserver, set access to the clearinghouse to allow the new
- machine to update it (ie node::SYSTEM acc READ WRITE DELETE TEST CONTROL)
-
- 3) On the old namesever,
- DNS> STOP CLEARINGHOUSE wkv_ch
- DNS> REMOVE CLEARINGHOUSE wkv_ch
-
- 4) Copy the clearinghouse file from the old server to the new
-
- 5) On the new nameserver,
- DNS> ADD CLEARINGHOUSE wkv_ch
-
- 6) Stop the old nameserver
-
- This all seemed to work, except for two things:
- - the DNS installation procedure seems to have set the wrong timezone on
- the new nameserver (I specified +09:30, but it was created -09:30)
- - when I tried to install DFS on the new machine, the DNS fell in a heap.
-
- I've stopped and started DNS on the new machine, and rebooted it, but it
- just doesn't work. I tried fixing the timezone on the new namserver but
- that just results in "System time has gone backwards" messages on the
- console, and attempts to communicate with the nameserver just hang.
-
- Where have I gone wrong?
-
- Jeremy Begg
-
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