1 Nov
2015
1 Nov
'15
12:42 a.m.
Hi Martin,
On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 06:20:27PM +0000, Martin Halford wrote:
Could someone please help me with setting up
nameservers on a new
Bitfolk VPS (Debian Jessie with ISPConfig 3).
I can tell you how to do it in Debian, but not in ISPConfig.
vconsult.co.uk is hosted on UK2 who do not appear to
support glue
records, needed for nameservers.
That is a pretty shocking omission on their part. Have you got a
link that describes why they don't support that? This isn't very
helpful:
https://kb.uk2.net/?s=glue&stype=ajsearch&stype=Search
So based on my limited knowledge of setting up
nameservers, the
options I have are:
1. Transferring vconsult.co.uk to another registrar such as Fasthosts
and setting up ns1.vconsult.co.uk and ns2.vconsult.co.uk with glue
records.
2. Changing the hostname on my new VPS to use a Fasthosts hosted
domain e.g. vs2.example.com and setting up ns1.example.com and
ns2.example.com with glue records .
If your goal is to have all your domains show as having
ns1.vconsult.co.uk and ns2.vconsult.co.uk as their nameservers then
it seems to me that you have to do the work on vconsult.co.uk.
If you use another domain then that's what's going to appear in the
zones files and at the registrars of all the domains. Only you can
answer if that is acceptable or not.
I suppose you could register a *new* domain at an acceptable registrar
and use that for everything, e.g. domain vcdns.blah with nameservers
a.vcdns.blah and b.vcdns.blah.
3. Using a Fasthosts hosted domain to set up
ns1.example.com and
ns2.example.com on the current hostname vs2.vconsult.co.uk
I don't understand this option I'm afraid.
For Option 1 I'm not keen in case the transfer
results in a break in
web/email services?
Moving a domain to a different registrar should keep its nameservers
the same, but I suppose the tricky bit here is that the nameservers
are also provided by the registrar (UK2) so they'll stop working
once you stop paying them money. UK2 may have published
documentation on how they handle that, or perhaps another UK2
customer knows.
For Option 2 I'm not sure if there are any issues
with changing the
hostname of the VPS, and would prefer to use my 'company' domain?
You wouldn't need to change the name of the VPS. Your issue is going
to be how you want the nameservers to appear in the domains' zone
files and at their registrars.
Cheers,
Andy
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