...yet a DNS question...
I already have my domain's Nameservers point to my 3 linode ip's… what would I do next say to create
Could someone please post a simple walkthrough or something I can go by? I'm sure it would help a lot of others out there as well…
-- Griswald
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So you have registed nameservers to the IPs.
So you have ns1.domain registered etc.
Via your domain registrar?
In that case you need to set-up bind.
Try this tutorial it is very good.
Adam
That was written for red-hat, but perhaps I can use it in mandrake as well (just need to find alot of the stuff, since it's in a diff place, but all of it is preinstalled
Thanks again. =]
– Griswald
I followed it to install on debian.
Most guidence docs seem to be written for RedHat, you will soon learn how to modify them to the OS of your choice.
Adam
-- Griswald
Forward DNS is for domain looksup Domain name to IP address
Reverse DNS is IP address to Domain name
Adam
Are you using an IP address per website?
Adam
I figured according to the linode website, if you use the ips when you could use hostnames, it'd block that specific thing from working… so I changed my reverse dns entries from *.members.linode.com to my nameservers, and all was fine again… Could they have actually been blocked from since I didn't set them in reverse DNS?
-- Griswald
Adam
Anyway, after I added the A lines to my nameservers, my domain instantly started working and all is well.
If anyone else has any trouble in DNS'ing their domain, I can post some basic instructions to get it up (after all, I went from a complete n00b to suddenly understanding how to do all this
– Griswald
You might check out
@mikegrb:
The point of having multiple name servers is making sure that there is a backup available in case the primary ns is unavailable/overloaded/some other funky shiznit.
Of course, if all your name servers do is point various domains to the same IP address, then there's no special advantage to having the nameservers up when the http and smtp servers they point to are down. Yes, this is heresy, I know, but I never quite figured out why DNS is considered to be so much more important than the services people actually want.
(And I'm actually using xname.org for secondary DNS for my domains. But I'm not clear how I benefit, besides the joy that comes from adhering to published standards
@Griswald:
I didn't know you had to add a dns "A" line entry for your own nameservers to work (since godaddy DNS' them for me).
– Griswald
A bit of clarification, for future DNS admin newbies: Once you've changed your domain's nameservers at your domain registry, nobody else can provide DNS for them; even if they appear in (say) godaddy's DNS, nothing will look there for them. The hook ("delegation") for the parent domain only uses the IP address (even though it often shows the name). Thus, A records for your nameservers are required, at least for the nameservers which are in your domain.