#SIMPLE DNS PLUS TURN OFF DHCP INSTALL#

In YaST2 Control Center select вЂњOpen Enterprise ServerвЂќ in the left hand menu to bring that section into view then select вЂњOES Install and ConfigureвЂќ.

(example: ssh -Yl root servername or ssh -Xl root servername ( that is a lowercase вЂњLвЂќ in there))

Get to your server console and start X or SSH in from a workstation with X installed (Linux, OSX) and start yast2.

In ConsoleOne or iManager delete, EXCEPT for DNS AG stuff!, any lingering DNS and DHCP stuff including DNS_servername, DHCP_servername, DHCPGroup, dhcpLocator, DNS Records, IN-ADDR.ARPA records, DNS-DHCP, DNSDHCP-GROUP, RootServerInfo, and TSIG keys you may have created, and any other stuff that mentions DNS or DHCP.

In the DNS/DHCP Management Console go through and delete ALL of your DNS and DHCP stuff! Then close the management console.

Congratulations you have backed up eDir on SLES! рџЂ.

Enter your admin password and hit вЂњenterвЂќ.

Enter your NDS admin name with contextexample: admin.digitalairlines.

Type: ndsbackup cf backupnameexample: ndsbackup cf.

Create a directory for your backups and cd into that directory.example: mkdir /root/edir.

Open a terminal or SSH into your server.

Backup eDirectory on your SLES 11 OES 11 server.

Note: For DNS you need to have the Zone selected to export it and for DHCP you must have the Service selected.

Backup your DNS Zones and DHCP service by using the DNS/DHCP Management ConsoleвЂ™s Export option.

Make sure youвЂ™re using the latest version of the Novell DNS/DHCP Management Console or at least the version you can download from your fully patched OES 11 server.

Time involved for a simple network topology: ~30 minutes!

I am going to show you in this HOW-TO that you can re-create a simple DHCP and DNS setup with DDNS working in very little time, much less time then I spent chasing error messages anyway. I would either find resources (Novell KB articles, forum post, docs) that were too old and/or for NetWare or nothing at all. I am going to suggest that you just throw it away and start from scratch! I know, you really donвЂ™t have the time to start over with it, right? Yeah, thatвЂ™s what I thought and I ended up wasting about two days chasing error messages and not having good results finding answers. You also may be having odd issues with DNS resolving things properly too, especially those DDNS addresses that were migrated. First things first, DDNS can not work after migration because DDNS works differently on SLES/Linux and OES 11 than it does on NetWare. So, you decided to migrate DHCP and DNS from NetWare 6.x OES 2 to SLES 11 OES 11 and things, especially DDNS are not working.

Simple dns plus turn off dhcp