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Private Nameservers in Plesk 10.4.4

R

RyanJJ

Guest
Hey All,

** Begin introduction **

Firstly to introduce myself, I'm Ryan, and I have been a PHP/MySQL enthusiast for a long time. I have had various boxes over the years, but always Linux. For peripheral reasons (new project) I have found myself with Windows Web Server 2008 R2 running IIS 7.5 with Plesk 10.4.4 - and this is where my confusion begins.

** End introduction **

I've managed to get everything up and running, however, when checking my NameServer settings using various tools online I can see that my domain takeawaystreet.com has no nameservers registered to it. At the registrar end, the nameservers are set to: ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk and ns2.takeawaydns.co.uk (I also own takeawaydns.co.uk and wish to use it as an exclusively nameserver domain for my various websites)

TakeawayDNS.co.uk - at the registrar end:
ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk -> dedicated IP on my server 111.111.111.111 (can't remember off the top of my head)
ns2.takeawaydns.co.uk-> dedicated IP on my server 222.222.222.222

This is where I am stuck. Having used WHM/cPanel for donkey's years, this has always been a piece of cake. Plug and play if you will. Create A records on the server for ns1 & ns2 inside the client account (for takeawaydns.co.uk) and then in the account for TakeawayStreet.com I create two NS records for the same domain which point to ns1.takeawaystreet.com and ns2.takeawaystreet.com

However, in Plesk I am absolutely lost. I have read countless tutorials online (7 differing tutorials completed thus far) and still the online tools are reporting NameServer errors.

DNS Records for the takeawaystreet.com domain (on the particular account):

176.9.172.126 / 24 PTR takeawaystreet.com.
ftp.takeawaystreet.com. CNAME takeawaystreet.com.
ipv4.takeawaystreet.com. A 176.9.172.126
lists.takeawaystreet.com. CNAME takeawaystreet.com.
mail.takeawaystreet.com. A 176.9.172.126
mssql.takeawaystreet.com. A 176.9.172.126
ns.takeawaystreet.com. A 176.9.172.126
takeawaystreet.com. NS ns1.first-ns.de.
takeawaystreet.com. NS robotns2.second-ns.de.
takeawaystreet.com. NS robotns3.second-ns.com.
takeawaystreet.com. NS ns2.takeawaydns.co.uk.
takeawaystreet.com. NS ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk.
takeawaystreet.com. A 176.9.172.126
takeawaystreet.com. MX (10) mail.takeawaystreet.com.
webmail.takeawaystreet.com. A 176.9.172.126
www.takeawaystreet.com. CNAME takeawaystreet.com.

DNS Records for takeawaydns.co.uk as it stands:

176.9.60.22 / 24 PTR takeawaydns.co.uk.
ftp.takeawaydns.co.uk. CNAME takeawaydns.co.uk.
ipv4.takeawaydns.co.uk. A 176.9.60.22
lists.takeawaydns.co.uk. CNAME takeawaydns.co.uk.
mail.takeawaydns.co.uk. A 176.9.60.22
mssql.takeawaydns.co.uk. A 176.9.60.22
ns.takeawaydns.co.uk. A 176.9.60.22
takeawaydns.co.uk. NS robotns2.second-ns.de.
takeawaydns.co.uk. NS ns1.first-ns.de.
takeawaydns.co.uk. NS robotns3.second-ns.com.
takeawaydns.co.uk. A 176.9.60.22
takeawaydns.co.uk. MX (10) mail.takeawaydns.co.uk.
webmail.takeawaydns.co.uk. A 176.9.60.22
www.takeawaydns.co.uk. CNAME takeawaydns.co.uk.

Records for ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk (I'm sure you can work out ns2...!)

176.9.60.22 / 24 PTR ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk.
ftp.ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk. CNAME ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk.
ipv4.ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk. A 176.9.60.22
mail.ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk. A 176.9.60.22
mssql.ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk. A 176.9.60.22
ns.ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk. A 176.9.60.22
ns1.ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk. A 176.9.172.121
ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk. NS ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk.
ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk. NS ns2.takeawaydns.co.uk.
ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk. A 176.9.60.22
ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk. MX (10) mail.ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk.
ns2.ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk. A 176.9.172.122
webmail.ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk. A 176.9.60.22
www.ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk. CNAME ns1.takeawaydns.co.uk.

I don't know whether Plesk and/or Windows has special requirements which would make it foolish for me to delete records such as mssql etc. which I do not use...? There seems to be very little online which details exactly what needs to be done and why.

I really am at my wit's end. Can somebody (and I know this is a HUGE ask as everyone is probably so busy) please give me a run through of how I can make sense of this. A link to a working tutorial that is appropriate to my config would suit me fine, because Google has not been my friend on this one.

I don't even know if Plesk needs to have options changed to even make it possible to be a DNS server... I feel like I am starting my Web Learning Journey all over again. I am baffled.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

Ryan
 
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