dns newbie question

rens

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I have a default DA install and i added 1 ip at admin level, after that i created ns1 and ns2 at reseller level.

My hostname is hostbak.mydomain.com
and the nameservers i created are:
ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com

I can't change my mydomain.com nameservers to one of my own at the moment (maybe this is never possible, i don't know)

I'm still pinging ns1 and ns2 as the same ip at the moment, and i can't register any domain with ns1.mydomain.comd and ns2.mydomain.com

I'm sure i'm missing the point in this whole dns system but like i said i'm new to this. I hope anyone can see what i am doing wrong here. (mydomain.com has NS and A records in directadmin, not at the register of mydomain.com, could that be the problem?)
 
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Make sure you have "A" records for ns1 and ns2 in your domain.com zone, so that they resolve.

Admin Level -> DNS Administration -> domain.com

Add A records:

ns1 A 1.2.3.4
ns2 A 1.2.3.4

John
 
this is what i have @ mydomain.com:

ftp A 84.244.180.45
localhost A 127.0.0.1
mail A 84.244.180.45
ns1 A 84.244.180.45
ns1.serververhuur.com. A 84.244.180.45
ns2 A 84.244.180.65
ns2.serververhuur.com. A 84.244.180.65
pop A 84.244.180.45
serververhuur.com. A 84.244.180.45
www A 84.244.180.45
serververhuur.com. NS ns1.serververhuur.com.
serververhuur.com. NS ns2.serververhuur.com.
mail MX 10
serververhuur.com. TXT "v=spf1 a mx ip4:84.244.180.45 ?all"
 
yeah that's what i told you in my post, i can't change the dns servers to my own and i can't create a new domain with these nameservers (.be works but .nl and .net for example don't work) The nameservers get rejected for some reason :s
 
Hello,

You have to first register them as nameservers before you can use them. This is done at your registrar before you assign them to your domain.

John
 
DirectAdmin Support said:
Hello,

You have to first register them as nameservers before you can use them. This is done at your registrar before you assign them to your domain.

John
ahh it's that easy :D tnx for the help, nameservers are requested, should be working tomorrow.
 
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