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How to make nameservers in different GEO location for redundancy?

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by postcd, Dec 15, 2014.

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    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

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    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
     
    Last edited: Dec 15, 2014
    postcd, Dec 15, 2014 IP
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    paullopez Active Member

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  3. postcd

    postcd Well-Known Member

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    no, thx, i dont work with cpanel, i just ask if anyone can answer my questions.
     
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    you can use route53 for that from amazone
     
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    Why not just use CloudFlare?
     
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    postcd Well-Known Member

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    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?
     
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    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
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    CloudFlare is your best option.
     
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