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Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server

  • From: Eric Kagan
  • Date: Tue Dec 13 15:47:41 2005

Title: Message
We need to move our Primary DNS server from legacy IP space provided by our upstreams to our ARIN Assigned IP space.  I am looking for advice and any gotchas.  I couldn't find any white papers to this affect or archived articles or postings.  If someone does have a resource for this or find this could be valuable, I can certainly gather all the info and document it.  Most of the Registrars I have seen now use the Authoritative DNS Server Host names for the domain name registrations vs the IP Address. For most of our customers, we register and host the DNS.  I have confirmed almost all the customers have either Network Solutions, Tucows, Go Daddy and Register.com.
 
Can I simply change the IP address of our DNS server and update the DNS Host Record with our registrar with the new IP and any A / NS records we have ?  As long as other customers domains have our DNS Server FQDN as the Host, they should not need to make any changes, correct ?   I would love to think its that simple, but there is always a gotcha.  Does anyone know of any main registries using just the IP Address where the customer might need to go in and make those changes for each and every domain ?  Any input, advice or ideas is appreciated.
 
Thanks
Eric