I followed the Perfect Fedora 7 setup tutorial and had a great experience once i decided to follow the ISPConfig installation instructions I am also new to linux but have a great learning curve. I own the domain "stipeco.com" and have it hosted with netfirms. I want to host it myself. My server name is ws1.stipeco.com i created a client and site for stipeco.com --------------------- i created 2 A-Records 192.168.0.129 www 192.168.0.129 ws1 --------------------- mailserver ws1.stipeco.com --------------------- hostname stipeco.com --------------------- i went to my hosting company and tried to change my name server to ws1.stipeco.com but it failed. i tried to change the name server to my external ip and it failed. !HELP! What is the right step to take next? Thanks,
You will have to setup a glue record at netfirms if a subdomain of stipeco.com shall be the nameserver for stipeco.com. http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16303&highlight=glue+record You might also have to get a second server as secondary dns server. DNS is not that easy if you are new to server management. Maybe you should consider to leave the dns service as a hosted service at netfirms for the beginning.
I read the section that discussed glue records before my original post but was not sure if that was going to apply to me or not. Thank you for your reply. I created a-record for ws1 with my hosting company i can reach the server:81 by name i deleted that a-record with my host and i am again unable to reach it. that definitely had an impact recreated a-record with host by creating this a-record with my host am i in fact creating the glue record? with it pointing to my server do i still need the a-records that reside on my local server i just set up?
So I understand, if a domain (domain.com) is being hosted by a sub-domain (sub-domain.domain.com), the user gets caught in a loop? And the only way to make it work is to: make the domain's nameserver point to someone outside your domain, who has a DNS server that has a record that lists your IP with your domain? I had a backwards understanding of DNS. I thought the purpose was to broadcast your address rather than have points that give directions to your server. --------------------------------------- I still need my local a-records unless I specify each of them with hosted Name Server? -Will it cause problems if i keep local and hosted a-records if they are identical? I probably do need two servers if I want my domain's name server to be local, but, i would still need to have a hosted record for the local name server and a secondary domain name to handle it? Thanks
In general, your understanding of the DNS problem is correct. But you miss that a nameserver hosts normally hundreds or thousands of domains and only the first domain, the domain were the subdomain is the name of the nameserver itself, needs a glue record.
