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Hi, I'm new to IIS and need your help please. Sounds easy so apologies for being newbie.

I have 2012 server with manually assigned IP and also lots of additional IP addresses assigned to it for all the sites. Server is currently hosting more than 10 sites on it.

one of the site is no longer needed and I need to release redundant site's IP and assign it to new site will be hosted on the same server.

What would be correct process please? IP that is assigned to redundant site is in the Ipv4 settings from network adapter properties and when I click on the "advanced" I can also see all the other IPs in the list which are in use.

do I just need to request for "a" record for "siteA" pointing to IP that is I need? ( in that case when I do nslookup it will be showing me the server name and the siteA?)

Emmanuel Adebayo

To assign the redundant site IP to a new site,
Stop the redundant site
Bind the redundant site IP to the new site by configuring the header for the site in IIS Manager
Configure you DNS to point to the new site; IP address to point to the new site i.e

I hope this helps.

Regards

kuzum

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Thanks emmanuel,

did not understand that very well, what about the "A" records? can you send me some screenshots? thanks

kuzum

ASKER

also would that not cause any issues to server if we need to change DNS ? IP is normally resolving to server name at the moment? thanks

Emmanuel Adebayo

Does each site on the server resolve to it's own IP address? If yes you need to configure the new site to resolve to the IP address in your DNS and this should not cause any issues to the server.

https://techontip.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/how-to-configure-multiple-iis-websites-to-access-using-host-headers/

kuzum

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when i do ---> nslookup---->set qtype =a ----->site1 or site2 each of the sites resolves its own ip assigned to them which is in the NIC properties. This is where I got confused.

I'm also trying to learn hpw IIS works so if you can please provide more info I would be really happy. thanks for your time

Emmanuel Adebayo

That's fine, this means that each site is binded to an IP. So you will need to configure the new site and assigned the old site ip address and set up the DNS A record.

http://www.iis.net/learn/get-started/introduction-to-iis/introduction-to-iis-architecture

kuzum

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so steps are:

stop the old site
remove a reecord for old site in dns
create a new site
create new a record for new site
bind site to that IP in IIS
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kuzum

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Hi,

can you also please answer my this post
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28691333/IIS-host-headers.html?anchorAnswerId=40843290#a40843290

thanks

Emmanuel Adebayo

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