How do I move my dns server from one machine to another?

If you transfer all the files from the default path C:\windows\system32\dns specifally all the zone files.

Then export the key values below to .reg files then move them and add them to the new machine you should be up and running in a flash.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DNS Server

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\DNS

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\DNS\Parameters

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\DNS\Zones

Once in awhile someone will disconnect from RDT and max out the number of connections. What do you do about this reboot the machine has been the rapid answer. Here is a little trick I picked up.

cmd

Windows NT/2000 does not come with a command-line 'kill' utility. You can get one in the Windows NT or Win2K Resource Kit, but the kit's utility can only terminate processes on the local computer. PsKill is a kill utility that not only does what the Resource Kit's version does, but can also kill processes on remote systems. You don't even have to install a client on the target computer to use PsKill to terminate a remote process.

Running PsKill with a process ID directs it to kill the process of that ID on the local computer. If you specify a process name PsKill will kill all processes that have that name.

usage: pskill [- ] [-t] [\\computer [-u username] [-p password]] <process name | process id>

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