I've become a little confused after reading some past posts, if someone could help clear things up for me, it'd be a big help. :D

I read about people having trouble with nameservers that still had domains pointing to them, though the host had not used the name servers in some time and didn't want to continue paying for the IP's.

So, if I had nameservers on two IP's and then later needed to move them to a different server(s) that would have different IP addresses, would this be possible. Or are the name servers stuck with the initial IP addresses until there are no domains left pointing to them?

Hope that makes sense,
Thanks,
James

Originally posted by James1
I've become a little confused after reading some past posts, if someone could help clear things up for me, it'd be a big help. :D

I read about people having trouble with nameservers that still had domains pointing to them, though the host had not used the name servers in some time and didn't want to continue paying for the IP's.

So, if I had nameservers on two IP's and then later needed to move them to a different server(s) that would have different IP addresses, would this be possible. Or are the name servers stuck with the initial IP addresses until there are no domains left pointing to them?

Hope that makes sense,
Thanks,
James

The nameservers would not be stuck, no.

People that experienced that kind of problem probably didn't follow the correct procedure for moving the nameservers. You need to do something like this:

1. Setup new nameservers with identical records to the old.
2. Change the IP of the ns1/ns2 A records on both pair of servers to point to the new address.
3. Contact your registrar(s) and the root glue records for ns1/ns2 changed as well (remember that if you serve several TLDs for example .com and .dk, you need to contact both registrars for this).
4. Wait until TTL is expired and the registrars have changed their data (just monitor the old servers until you see no more dns lookups).
5. Remove all zones from the old servers, so that it does not answer with stale data.