The core IP scheme is changing also, going from 128.x.x.x to 10.x.x.x. I do agree there are ways to make it easier, but the guys with the mahagoney desks don't want to go that way. George Taylor Systems Programmer Regional Health inc. -----Original Message----- From: Adam.Baum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Adam.Baum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:01 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: DNS Toys How about giving the new server the old system's IP address when you shut the old system down? If you have to bring up the old server, either power off the new one or give it a different IP. adam "Roger Riggins" <roger.riggins@ls iowa.org> To Sent by: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> thin-bounce@freel cc ists.org Subject [THIN] Re: OT: DNS Toys 07/13/2006 02:53 PM Please respond to thin@xxxxxxxxxxxx g You could just run a sniffer against that IP for all DNS traffic. Good luck, Roger Riggins Network Administrator Lutheran Services in Iowa w: 319.859.3543 c: 319.290.5687 http://www.lsiowa.org -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Taylor, George Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:21 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] OT: DNS Toys I know this is way off topic, but there is so much brain power and experience here I thought someone might know of something. We're planning for an AD upgrade, 2000 to 2003, which includes replacing a few of our core DCs. One being replaced is the primary DNS server for AD, basically "everything" in our central site has it as the primary and all other sites have it as the secondary and thier local DC as the primary. To have a warm fuzzy feeling the bosses don't want to touch this DC/IP/Name, so we basically need to simply shut it down at the time we flip and be able to bring it right back up if needed. Just FYI, all external DNS that we are the master for is handled by a couple Linux machines in the DMZ, so they won't be touched. 90% of the change to point to another server for DNS is obvious and fairly easy to do with most of it being DHCP or servers. But we are worried about things like BioMed device or printers and such that are out there that we don't really know about. Certianly don't want to break a BioMed device and kill somebody, that could make for a bad day. :-O What we are thinking right now is some type of logging software to sit on this machine for a week or two and logged the IP of anything performing a DNS lookup through it. Does anyone have any idea of how to handle something like this? Thanks Much, George Taylor Systems Programmer Regional Health inc. Lutheran Services in Iowa Confidentiality Notice ================================================================== The information contained in this communication may be confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its contents, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return it to the sender immediately and delete the original message and any copy of it from your computer system. If you have any questions concerning this message, please contact the sender. ************************************************ For Archives, RSS, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: //www.freelists.org/list/thin ************************************************ ************************************************ For Archives, RSS, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: //www.freelists.org/list/thin ************************************************