Nameservers

[mlazenby]

We registered our nameserver as domain.com, but it won't resolve to ns.domain.com.

Were we supposed to register "ns.domain.com" or can we make an adjustment at the registrar so that domain.com also resolves ns1.domain.com?

Thanks in advance.

Mike

Edit: I guess this isn't very clear.

Caching DNS resolves nicely when pointed at the server's IP. I understood however that I was supposed to register the IP which I have done as "domain.com". Then for each of the hosted sites I will point their registrars at "ns1.domain.com", eg. So my registered site domain.com uses the registrars nameservers to point at my IP address, but how can I convince it to equate "domain.com" with "ns1.domain.com" etc. ? I know when I am hosting the domains

 

[faris]

I don't think you can register domain.com as a nameserver.

Well maybe you can, but it won't work.

You need to register xxxxxxx.domain.com (pointing to an ip) as a nameserver, where xxxx can be absolutely anything: ns1, ns2, nameserver1, nameserver2, thisismynamserver, whydoesntthiswork .. anything.

or specifically in your case ns1 and ns2.

Faris.

 

[mlazenby]

What I wanted to do was register pnhosting.ca and then use the registrar's nameservers to point it back to the caching nameserver on the Plesk box with all the virtual hosts. Unfortunately I can't figure out why it won't alias pnhosting.ca to NS1.pnhosting.ca. I have set up the Primary DNS at the ISP where I work to do this easily with an A record. Also, for some reason, our registrar "DomainPeople" doesn't seem to offer us the option to repoint our IP!!!

I THINK once I get the IP repointed and the A record resolving to ns1.pnhosting.ca at the registrar all will be ok ????

 

[mlazenby]

Could really use some help.

My friends original Cpanel site (which he is leasing) resolves everybody back to ns1.hisdomain.com and ns2.hisdomain.com where ns1 and ns2 are IP's that are different from hisdomain.com. Can I just set up to entries like that in the Plesk zone files?

What I don't get is how can I use hisdomain.com to act as it's own nameserver?? Doesn't another public server somewhere have to point to it initially?

As my co-worker says "Why does everything have to be so complicated?"