Advice please on pointing dns-I'm confused by the documentation

[edward taaffe]

Hi all, I hope someone clear up my confusion.
I am moving my site to a new VPS and isntalled plesk for windows. Very nice and simple.
Now my domain is at heartinternet and it uses their name server. Normally I'd go there and add the ip address of the new server.
This time, I typed in the domain in Plesk and it has created a name record on a local DNS server.
Do I still go to heartinternet and point the domain here?

Is this local DNS communication with public servers and creating a mess of differnet records?
Idf I shut ff this local one, will the sites on iis no longer be found?

Any advice at all would be great because I need to switch over without any embarrassing period with no wbste and I'm not sure how I can even test this.

Thanks in advance

Ed

 

[scsa20]

You will still need to log into wherever you manage your domain name and update the DNS records there. If you want to manage your DNS records from Plesk (on your VPS) instead, then you will need to set 2 NS records and 2 A records (meaning you will need a second DNS server or at least a second IP address to use). You'll have 2 NS records set (ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com) and have 2 A records, one for ns1 and one for ns2. Then you'll update the Name Server records in your domain parker to point to ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com but before you can do that you will need to set 2 glue records, one glue record per ns#.yourdomain.com.

If you're hosting just yourself and the steps above seems complex to you (which it can be if you don't know what a glue record is, either that or don't have the ability to get a second IP address or don't have another server to act as a secondary DNS server), I would suggest sticking with managing the DNS with whoever you got your domain from by updating the A record only and logging into Plesk and turning off DNS support.

And by default the DNS server does not allow other DNS servers to obtain copies of the record unless you specifically told it which servers is allowed to get a copy of it.

And turning off the local DNS does not prevent your sites from being found, just make sure you update the A records from where you got your domain from to point to the VPS.

 

[edward taaffe]

Thanks, that really helps