Multiple Servers, Multiple Name Servers

[chrispian]

I've been browsing the docs, site-helper and forums and can't find the answer. I'm thinking it's simple but I'm just missing it.

CURRENT SETUP
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Server 1 :
ns1.domain.com
ns2.domain.com

Server one hosts our main domain (domain.com in this example) and has 1 reseller that hosts another 50 domains.

Everything is working fine.

DESIRED SETUP
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Server 1:
ns1.domain.com
ns2.domain.com

Server 2:
ns3.domain.com
ns4.domain.com

Server 3:
ns5.domain.com
ns6.domain.com

I'll be moving domain.com to server 3, but the original 50 sites will say on server 1. I've registered ns1-6 with my registrar and added them in DA. The servers are setup exactly the same (usernames etc.). When I changed the nameserver from ns1/2 to ns5/6 to move it to Server 3 domain.com worked fine but the other 50 sites went down (could not find server).

I noticed on server one the DNS files has ns1.451press.com. / ns2.451press.com. in the DNS setup, do I need to do that for each NS and if so, do they go on each respective server or just on the domain.com server?

 

[pucky]

Are these all DA servers? If so, why dont you use the clustering feature and have them all use ns1 ns2??

Server 1: ip 111.111.111.111
ns1.domain.com - 111.111.111.111
ns2.domain.com - 222.222.222.222

Server 2: ip 222.222.222.222
ns1.domain.com 111.111.111.111
ns2.domain.com 222.222.222.222

Server 3: ip 333.333.333.333
ns1.domain.com - 111.111.111.111
ns2.domain.com - 222.222.222.222

 

[chrispian]

That's a reasonable suggestion. They are indeed all DA servers. I may do that later, but for now I'm going to focus on fixing this problem before trying something new. I know what I'm trying works and I'm sure I just missed a setting somewhere, I just don't see it yet.

 

[nobaloney]

Did you change your nameserver IP assignments with the domain registrar?

Jeff

 

[chrispian]

Did you change your nameserver IP assignments with the domain registrar?

Jeff

Yup. I registered them with the Registrar about two weeks ago and when I was ready to move the domain to the new server I changed the NS from ns1/2 to ns5/6. I did *NOT* change the other 50 domains since they were staying on the ns1/2 server. The main site that I was transferring moved over fine and came up fine, but the other 50 sites went down.

 

[nobaloney]

then do some traces on a linux/unix box to see where the problem is:

$ dig +trace example.com

Jeff