24 Feb
2011
24 Feb
'11
12:38 p.m.
Hi Ian,
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:27:01PM +0000, Ian Piper wrote:
I initially thought that I would be able to achieve
what I want by changing the nameserver entries at the Dreamhost end to those of bitfolk
rather than those of Dreamhost, since Bitfolk presumably has a record for openvocabs.org
at 212.13.194.162. However, Andy Smith has advised that I need to insert records into the
openvocabs.org domain to point openvocabs.org and www.openvocabs.org to my new
server's ip address (212.13.194.162). I've looked at the Dreamhost DNS management
page for this domain and it has the facility to change the nameservers for the domain or
add custom records (A, CNAME, TXT, NS, SRV or AAAA) or custom MX. Is that what I need to
do? I have no idea of the implications of putting an entry here. This page also shows a
non-editable record for this domain, as follows:
A 69.163.156.237
NS ns1.dreamhost.com
NS ns2.dreamhost.com
NS ns3.dreamhost.com
ftp A 69.163.156.237
www A 69.163.156.237
You need to change every instance of "69.163.156.237" above to be
"212.13.194.162". You do not need to change the NS records.
Once you've done that, the rest is web server config on your VPS.
Hopefully someone with experience of Dreamhost's DNS interface can
tell you exactly how to achieve that.
Cheers,
Andy
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