I have a question I'm hoping some of you out there can help out with. I seem to be having no luck getting an answer from my server provider so I thought I'd try here!
I recently leased a server from a provider that has WHM/CPANEL installed. While I am familiar with both products, I am questioning the way this server was setup. I ordered a server with 5 IPs and requested two nameservers be setup as well (named ns3.mydomain.com and ns4.mydomain.com)
When I got the email with all my server information, the main server is 100.100.100.100 &changed of course&. I log into WHM and check the setup and yes indeed that is the case. My understanding is that this is the main server IP, and that all name-based accounts setup on this server will also share this IP.
What is troubling me is that when I check the nameserver setup, I find that ns3 is also using 100.100.100.100. ns4 is using the next IP provisioned 100.100.100.101. This leads me to my question - shouldn't ns3. and ns4. have their own IPs that are reserved for their use only? I have to imagine that sharing the main server IP will at some point cause a problem. If they should ahve their own IPs, how do I do this in WHM? Whenever I deleted and recreate the nameservers, ns3 always grabs 100.100.100.100 and I can't see a place for a user-specified IP for the nameservers.
Thank you all in advance for your help. I need to iron this out so I can register the nameservers and begin migrating accounts from another server over to the new box.
Cheers!
I recently leased a server from a provider that has WHM/CPANEL installed. While I am familiar with both products, I am questioning the way this server was setup. I ordered a server with 5 IPs and requested two nameservers be setup as well (named ns3.mydomain.com and ns4.mydomain.com)
When I got the email with all my server information, the main server is 100.100.100.100 &changed of course&. I log into WHM and check the setup and yes indeed that is the case. My understanding is that this is the main server IP, and that all name-based accounts setup on this server will also share this IP.
What is troubling me is that when I check the nameserver setup, I find that ns3 is also using 100.100.100.100. ns4 is using the next IP provisioned 100.100.100.101. This leads me to my question - shouldn't ns3. and ns4. have their own IPs that are reserved for their use only? I have to imagine that sharing the main server IP will at some point cause a problem. If they should ahve their own IPs, how do I do this in WHM? Whenever I deleted and recreate the nameservers, ns3 always grabs 100.100.100.100 and I can't see a place for a user-specified IP for the nameservers.
Thank you all in advance for your help. I need to iron this out so I can register the nameservers and begin migrating accounts from another server over to the new box.
Cheers!
