9 Jun
2011
9 Jun
'11
5:43 p.m.
On 09/06/11 17:05, Daniel Case wrote:
Hi Guys,
I've recently come into possession of a relatively small hosting
company and I'm trying to move the ~15 or so domains to Bitfolk, the
set up they have now is as follows:
-1 server with 5 IP addresses
-A main domain name registered with GoDaddy, with an NS1 host and NS1
A record pointing to one of the IP addresses, and an NS2 host and A
record pointing to another IP address
All the domains they host are then pointed to ns1 and ns2 on the main
domain via nameservers.
I think I need to just move the main domain, but will I need two IP
addresses for this or can ns1 and ns2 point to the same IP?
This sounds like they're using just one machine to provide both primary
and backup domain servers. This is a Bad Idea(TM). The whole idea of
having two is so that if one goes tits up the other will still be working.
I'm not sure whether Andy provides secondary DNS services, but if he
doesn't then it can be had very reasonably from other providers. You
can set your VPS up as the primary DNS, and have someone else slave off
it for the secondaries. Then you inform your registrar of the change of
DNS servers and it should just flow.
HTH
John