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

[Dale L. <li...@eh...>]

Hi Jamie,

Jamie Cameron wrote:

>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
>  
>


Thank you for the suggestion. That will help a great deal. I wasn't 
quite sure what all the differences were that would let me change it 
from slave to master.

Regards,

Dale