Hi guys,<div><br></div><div>I am planning to resell hosting accounts on my VPS to businesses as part of a web design and programming job that I do now. However, I appear to be having some problems with bind9, and setting up my own nameservers. I originally thought that a domain translates to an IP and that was the end of it.</div>

<div><br></div><div>This is what I know so far:</div><div>-I need 2 subdomains, <a href="http://ns1.mydomain.com">ns1.mydomain.com</a> and <a href="http://ns2.mydomain.com">ns2.mydomain.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>This is what I have no idea about:</div>

<div>-Do these subdomains have to be on different servers, or just different IP&#39;s? Can they even use the same IP?</div><div>-If they need to be different, can my hosting server be on 1.2.3.4 if my nameservers are: 1.2.3.4 and 5.6.7.8</div>

<div><br></div><div>I have followed this: <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/dns-configuration.html">https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/dns-configuration.html</a> in order to set up my first nameserver, and it will now ping <a href="http://example.com">example.com</a> if I set the resolv.conf to use itself. </div>

<div><br></div><div>If I set <a href="http://turasmara.com">turasmara.com</a> to use that nameserver, and ping it from my home box I do not get anything. However if I ping it from the VPS I get:</div><div><div><br></div>
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root@hostinghaven:~# ping <a href="http://turasmara.com">turasmara.com</a></div><div>PING <a href="http://turasmara.com">turasmara.com</a> (1.2.3.4) 56(84) bytes of data.</div><div>64 bytes from <a href="http://www.domainname.com">www.domainname.com</a> (1.2.3.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.018 ms</div>

</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><div>What have I done wrong...and what do I till need to do to get this to work?</div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Daniel</div><div><br>

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