Hi, i have 2 nameservers registered with my domain registar (ns1.domain.com, ns2.domain.com) and i want secondary nameserver to point into different geo location for redundancy can i just point secondary ns2 to some IP of a linux VPS which i order for the purpose of redirecting DNS traffic and add an DNS record to this VPS (which record type?) to redirect to main hosting IP? Or do i need to actually host domain.com on that VPS for it to work? Thank you
If you are using cPanel on your Linux VPS then check the following Documentation of cPanel to configure Cluster. I think that is a good option for you to achieve the goal. Or consider DNS Made Easy.
Thx for advices, i do NOT want to use any thirdparty services, i already have plain Linux VPS for it.. can anyone please respond my questions (in initial post of this topic) accordingly?
Well if you dont want to use third party services, its simple. Either use your domain registrar along with your dns on your server OR get a small 128 mb ram vps that you know is located where you need and then setup dns there. yes, you can do that. it would be an A record for the ns ip, host summary/hostname record at your registrar and take care to put the ns records. You can use a service like intodns.com to verify everything. If you use cpanel you can put a dnsonly (which is free) setup on the other vps and cluster to your local VPS or simply create a dns server there and duplicate the same records you have on your main server. And in conclusion this wont help you much unless you have a load balanced geolocated server setup as if you have single point of failure you just wasted time and money. An extra dns server does you no good if what it is pointing to is down. If you want to use in case the main server goes down, it will still take time to resolve. About as much time as it would take to figure out the problem in the first place or move the main server. regards