Re: [webmin-l] converting slave zones to master and vice-versa

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 05:26, Dale Lists wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There is an option on a zone by zone basis that lets you convert a slave 
> zone to a master and a master to a slave zone. How difficult would this 
> be to add when viewing all domains so one could convert a bunch of 
> domains at once?
> 
> The reason I am asking is we are moving from MS DNS (yes I know!) to 
> Bind on a Webmin administrated box. Our plan for now is to set all the 
> zones up as secondaries (using the import function) then we need to 
> convert them all to master zones once we bring the MS DNS machine down.
> 
> Any suggestions welcome.

There is no support for this in Webmin at the moment, although it is a
good idea for a future feature. It may be easiest to simply edit your
named.conf file and change all the 'type slave;' entries in the slave
zones to 'type master;' , and delete the sections like :

masters {
	1.2.3.4;
	};

 - Jamie