Setting up Namerservers + Domain Registrar

O.k I'm lost. I just finished reading the How TO sticky above for the third time on how to setup nameservers in the WHM and I'm still no sure what I'm doing. I'm a web designer for a company that just recently rented a new dedicated server for several upcoming websites we are planning on launching and hosting on set server. We have a dedicated with a single IP address (is that enough for a NS?) and I have root access and was planning on creating several accounts inside the WHM for each site. Our other hosting providers we've dealt with usually provided us with their own nameserver service so I've never had to set one up. I just went to my registrar and added the two hosting NS's in replacement of theirs...and waited for propagation to take place.

• Now if I was planning on using the domain domain.com for one of the sites which will be on my server. Would I go to the "root account’s default nameservers" and just come up with a nameserver called ns1.domain.com & ns2.domain.com?

• Something which also wasn't mentioned in the How To sticky was do I have to do anything on my domain registrars end to point my domain to my server's IP...like create an "A Record" with my IP address in the DNS settings?

• If I'm planning on having at least three different sites each with their own domain on my server do I have to create a new nameserver for each or just use the ns1.domain.com & ns2.domain.com ones and add them with the domains in question on my registrars side while in the WHM I go to DNS Functions > Edit DNS Zone and find the account and under the nameserver list make sure its ns1.domain.com & ns2.domain.com?
  
  Thanks for the help and time if anyone can point me in the right direction.

 

O.k I'm lost. I just finished reading the How TO sticky above for the third time on how to setup nameservers in the WHM and I'm still no sure what I'm doing. I'm a web designer for a company that just recently rented a new dedicated server for several upcoming websites we are planning on launching and hosting on set server. We have a dedicated with a single IP address (is that enough for a NS?) and I have root access and was planning on creating several accounts inside the WHM for each site. Our other hosting providers we've dealt with usually provided us with their own nameserver service so I've never had to set one up. I just went to my registrar and added the two hosting NS's in replacement of theirs...and waited for propagation to take place.

• Now if I was planning on using the domain domain.com for one of the sites which will be on my server. Would I go to the "root account’s default nameservers" and just come up with a nameserver called ns1.domain.com & ns2.domain.com?

• Something which also wasn't mentioned in the How To sticky was do I have to do anything on my domain registrars end to point my domain to my server's IP...like create an "A Record" with my IP address in the DNS settings?

• If I'm planning on having at least three different sites each with their own domain on my server do I have to create a new nameserver for each or just use the ns1.domain.com & ns2.domain.com ones and add them with the domains in question on my registrars side while in the WHM I go to DNS Functions > Edit DNS Zone and find the account and under the nameserver list make sure its ns1.domain.com & ns2.domain.com?
  
  Thanks for the help and time if anyone can point me in the right direction.

 

Do I have to setup a private nameserver with my registrar before doing all of this?

 

I got a dedicated server plan last week. Until now I cannot for the life of me get the domain which I have set aside with my registrar for the hostname/nameserver to connect with the WHM.

For this example I have domain sample.org as the domain I'm using for hostname and nameservers.

In the WHM "Basic cPanel & WHM setup".

• I have the IP address for shared virtual hosts set as 55.55.55.55
• At the bottom I set 2x nameservers. ns1.sample.org where I went and asked the WHM to apply an open IP address. It chose the 55.55.55.55 IP, and then clicked make an A record. I did this again for my second nameserver called ns2.sample.org. The IP address given by the WHM was the gateway IP for the additional IP's ( I have 6 open ATM) I purchased through my hosting provider 66.66.66.66. An A record was created as well.
• The hostname for the WHM is hello.sample.org @ IP 55.55.55.55

From the homepage when I go into DNS Functions > Edit DNS Zone. I'm greeted with both nameservers listed.

SAMPLE of NS1



SAMPLE of NS2




Registrar

On my domain registrars side. I have setup sample.org as a private nameserver in the DNS settings page.

• Host: ns1 - Points to: 55.55.55.55
• Host: ns2 - Points to: 66.66.66.66
• There were two existing NS records pointing that domain to my registrars server which I deleted.
• On the A Records page. I have again ns1 going to 55.55.55.55 and ns2 going to 66.66.66.66, and sample.org going to 55.55.55.55.

I have let the domain go through more than 24hrs of propagation and when I go to add the nameserver to another domain I have which I would like to use for my first account on cpanel it states it can't find a valid IP address. I'm not sure what to do any more. I have read so many threads and still can't get it to work. Anyway help is very much appreciated.

Thanks

 

Yeah that was a typo. its just a single .org and the end of the domain.

 

I just did a report using my hostname/NS domain sample.org.

Code:

Domain NS records Nameserver records returned by the parent servers are:

ns2.hostpapa.com.  ['204.15.193.53'] (NO GLUE)  [TTL=86400]
ns1.hostpapa.com.  ['69.90.36.133'] (NO GLUE)  [TTL=86400]

b0.org.afilias-nst.org was kind enough to give us that information.

DNS Parent sent Glue The parent nameserver b0.org.afilias-nst.org is not sending out GLUE for every nameservers listed, meaning he is sending out your nameservers host names without sending the A records of those nameservers. It's ok but you have to know that this will require an extra A lookup that can delay a little the connections to your site. This happens a lot if you have nameservers on different TLD (domain.com for example with nameserver ns.domain.org.)


NS records from your nameservers NS records got from your nameservers listed at the parent NS are:

ns1.hostpapa.com ['69.90.36.133']  [TTL=86400]
ns2.hostpapa.com ['204.15.193.53']  [TTL=86400]

hostpapa is my old hosting provider which I did a domain transfer from last week to my current domain registrar. I'm not sure why they are showing up.

 

Can't access the SSH through putty at the moment, getting a connection refused error. When I get in I will try look at those files.

 

alright I've got access to the SSH, and I installed configserver explorer to browse the OS files more easily.

 

So I managed to look into the two nameserverips files.

in /etc/nameserverips

55.55.55.55=ns1.sample.org
66.66.66.66=ns2.sample.org

which is correct.

in /var/cpanel/nameserverips.yaml

ns1.sample.org:
"": 0
count: 3
zones: ns1.sample.org,tt2distributors.com,ns2.sample.org
ns2.sample.org:
"": 0
count: 3
zones: ns1.sample.org,ttldistributors.com,ns2.sample.org

tt2distributors.com is the domain for the single Cpanel account I have tied to my WHM that i'm trying to connect the nameservers to.

 

Did the ifconfig command from shell. My inet address is 55.55.55.55 and my Bcast is 55.55.55.56

Based on the fact the DNS scan for the domain is still showing it pointing to my old registrar I'm thinking the problem lies on the registrars end not my server.

 

I updated the sample.org nameservers from the old hosting provider to ns1.sample.org and ns2.sample.org. I've been trying all day and when I attempt to direct one of my other domains to my server I get a new error message:

[ns1.sample.org] doesn't exist at the registry.

 

I did that., but when i do a scan with intoDNS I get three errors.

Getting 3 erros

Mismatched NS records WARNING: One or more of your nameservers did not return any of your NS records.

DNS servers responded ERROR: One or more of your nameservers did not respond:


Missing nameservers reported by your nameservers You should already know that your NS records at your nameservers are missing, so here it is again:

ns1.domain.org.
ns2.domain.org.