I am running directadmin for almost 2 years now and I love the control panel. I have 2 nameservers setup already ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com all pointing to the same IP. Everything works fine with this. However I am going to sell the domain and therefor I already want to set up extra nameservers with another domain. Here is what I did: -Bought a domain (mydomain.com) -Added domain in directadmin (User-level) -Added 2 Free IP'S from IP management in directadmin (Admin level) -Assigned them to admin -On Reseller level I chose nameservers and binded them with the 2 IP's (I made ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com) -I registered the nameservers on my registrar (ns1.mydomain.com -> IP1 and ns2.mydomain.com -> IP2) -I set the nameservers mydomain.com to ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com In my DNS administration I have the mydomain.com that containst both these: ns1.mydomain.com. A IP1 ns2.mydomain.com. A IP2 mydomain.com. NS ns1.mydomain.com. mydomain.com. NS ns2.mydomain.com. And the rest all points to the default server IP (the one where my current nameservers run on) Is this aight?
All sounds right to me stepwise. It should work. Keep in mind it can take up to 72 hours for nameserver to be fully propangated.
Ok I hope it will work out , thanks for the reply and if anyone has some extra to add feel free too..
You created the nameservers correctly. By the way, you can create ns3. and ns4. using the same IPs given.
yes, everything is correct, namserver is only used to translate names into IP addresses. we use more dns because if one server fails to translate so another will do the change.