I set up a new dedicated server the other day. It has an IP address. I picked up another IP to use on it, but mostly as a routing IP for use as a name server route. I think.
On my last dedicated server (which I got through GoDaddy) I didn't have to do any of this. I set up the 2 IPs as the IPs for NS1.EVERAHHOSTING.COM and NS2.EVERAHHOSTING.COM in the host sumary of the domain name everahhosting.com. I then changed the name server values for the domain everahhosting.com to NS1.EVERAHHOSTING.COM and NS2.EVERAHHOSTING.COM. It resolved, and I set up a bunch of client sites using the name servers NS1.EVERAHHOSTING.COM and NS2.EVERAHHOSTING.COM. They have always worked without me ever setting up any kind of DNS server.
Figuring that I'd try to do the same thing for my new server as I did with the old, I set up a domain name (everahhosting.net) and changed the host summary for the domain to NS1.EVERAHHOSTING.NET and NS2.EVERAHHOSTING.NET. I then changed the name server values for the everahhosting.net domain to NS1.EVERAHHOSTING.NET and NS2.EVERAHHOSTING.NET and it did not work the way the first one did. So after asking a bunch of questions, I found that my new dedicated server did not have a DNS server running and as a result, all DNS name queries were failing because of no response or unknown host (Error 11004). I can lookup the IPs on the server, but I cannot lookup domain names.
My question:
What do I need to do so that when I set up a client site (say clientdomain.com) I can use the name servers NS1.EVERAHHOSTING.NET and NS2.EVERAHHOSTING.NET and have the site clientdomain.com actually route to the server and serve up content?
I have followed these instructions which work very well, but I still cannot get a domain to route appropriately using the name servers NS1.EVERAHHOSTING.NET and NS2.EVERAHHOSTING.NET.
Some information:
Server OS: Linux Fedora Core 5
DNS Server: BIND
The host name on the dedicated server is: fc61553.aspadmin.net (I haven't changed that as I am not sure what the consequences would be).
The IPs that I am using for the name servers are: NS1.EVERAHHOSTING.NET (216.75.15.53) and NS2.EVERAHHOSTING.NET (216.75.15.18).
Based on the instructions in the tutorial I followed, the forward master zone file for everahhosting.net for my DNS server looks like:
Code: Select all
$ttl 38400
everahhosting.net. IN SOA fc61553.aspadmin.net. admin.everah.com. (
1172337173
10800
3600
604800
38400 )
everahhosting.net. IN NS ns1.everahhosting.net.
everahhosting.net. IN A 216.75.15.53
www.everahhosting.net. IN CNAME everahhosting.net.
mail.everahhosting.net. IN CNAME everahhosting.net.
ftp.everahhosting.net. IN CNAME everahhosting.net.
everahhosting.net. IN MX 10 everahhosting.net.
fc61553.aspadmin.net. IN A 216.75.15.53Code: Select all
$ttl 38400
15.75.216.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ns1.everahhosting.net. admin.everah.com. (
1172338003
10800
3600
604800
38400 )
15.75.216.in-addr.arpa. IN NS ns1.everahhosting.net.
53.15.75.216.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR everahhosting.net.
www.15.75.216.in-addr.arpa. IN CNAME everahhosting.net.
mail.15.75.216.in-addr.arpa. IN CNAME everahhosting.net.
ftp.15.75.216.in-addr.arpa. IN CNAME everahhosting.net.