Need nameserver ?

[glowingedges]

Hello,

I'm pretty new to DirectAdmin.. and i'm doubting to purchase it.

The problem is...

All my domains are running on my merchant nameservers. So I control my records using their control panel.

Is it possible to use DA without nameservers ? so let DA gets information from my merchant ?

Thanks in advance.

 

[louie55]

Yes, it should work fine. The only issue you will have is that any DNS changes made in DirectAdmin will not have any effect on the Domain.

Just setup DirectAdmin the normal way, let it do it's DNS stuff. However, the DNS stuff it does will just not have any effect since you are using other nameservers to do the DNS for your hosted domains. As long as you create all of the correct records for the domains you create on the alternate nameserver (i.e. MX, CNAME, and/or A records) and point them to your server's IP(s), it should work.

Louie

 

[glowingedges]

Thanks for the quick reply...

So its not a "requirement" for DirectAdmin to function ? Glad to hear that.

Worked with the demo and it works very fine.

A quick question, maybe for another forum part.. but resolves DirectAdmin as wel the problem for roaming POP3 users ?

 

[glowingedges]

I forgot one thing to ask about DNS.

I see in the installation list no DNS server is getting installed.

DirectAdmin Control Panel Software
Apache 1.3.33 Web Server
FrontPage 5.0.2.2510 Microsoft FrontPage™ Extensions
PHP 4.3.11 PHP Scripting Language
phpMyAdmin-2.6.1 MySQL Database Manager
MySQL 4.0.23 MySQL Databases
Exim 4.50 Exim Mail Manager
Majordomo 1.94.5 Majordomo Mailing List Manager
vm-pop3d 1.1.7f POP3 Mail Manager
WU-IMAP Imap daemon (with virtual pop modifications)
Proftpd 1.2.10 FTP Server

Do I need todo this myself at Fedora Installation ?

 

[louie55]

Yes, you need to install the "Named" daemon yourself. If you go here:

http://www.directadmin.com/install.html

It tells you what you will need to install yourself. You will need to install development tools (such as gcc, make, etc....), Named, and SSH.

Louie

 

[glowingedges]

Thanks again... I think i must learn reading.. I have read that page many times.

 

[PCTech]

I have a similar concern but more the opposite. I want DNS to automatically be enabled, but I'm not sure if it is working correctly. Is there a way to tell that it is set up correctly before I actually change the NS on my registrar? I looked at the demo_admin and it doesn't have anything in CNAME, is that required?

This is a print screen of my DNS area:

I blanked out my IP but it is the IP of my server. I just wonder if all I have to do is change the NS's to ns1.greglee.net & ns2.greglee.net and it will 'work'?

Lastly, if I have other domains/sites that are in http://111.111.111.111/~site how do I direct it to those? (I will have different website on my server, 'site' would be different for each one.

 

[glowingedges]

CNAME's are not needed. Since you use A (Subdomain) as long they correspondends to your IP it should be ok.

 

[PCTech]

Since you use A (Subdomain)

not sure what you mean by that statement. Did you look at my screen shot? Did that info look correct?

Thanks!

 

[glowingedges]

not sure what you mean by that statement. Did you look at my screen shot? Did that info look correct?

Thanks!

Yep I took a look at it ...

Here's a small example.
You use type "A" records. A type's need IP addresses.
CNAME aint much different but then the A is just one record.

e.a. : (ip : 123.123.123.123)

[name] - [type] - [value]

server - A - 123.123.123.123

after one A record server everything else can be a CNAME with server as value. See :

www - CNAME - server (no .)
ftp - CNAME - server
mail - CNAME - server