Possible to move nameservers for domain to external server?

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This user account is on a server using DA and the nameservers are running on the server itself. Or at least the "DNS Management" is being used to control the DNS.

Is it possible to move the nameservers away to an external server and just point the website's a-records back to the server running the site?

And keep the site "in the air" during this transition?

Thanks!
 
Thanks for your reply @seLLeRone.

Looks very interesting but i don't even need this functionality.

I'm just wondering if the user's hosting account will still resolve and keep functioning without errors when the DNS management is moved away from the server hosting the account to an external DNS server (CloudFlare).

And, if so, should i adjust the nameservers in the DA account to CloudFlare or only change the nameservers to CF at the domain registar?
 
You dont mantain the NS on DirectAdmin but at your Domains Registar, there you specify the nameservers for the domain, so if you provide the CloudFlare ones, DA will never be "considered" for DNS informations about a domain.

Regards
 
Ah, i see. That explains.
So changing the nameserver at registar level and pointing the a-records to the current server won't cause any disturbances?

Should i do anything with the entered a/mx/txt/ns records in the DNS-management in DA?
 
Ok, so you need to disable the "Use this server as mail server" (or something like that) on DNS configuration for each domain and set the correct MX record.

Maybe, but i'm not sure, because you are not going to use DNS at all, you may be able to remove the DNS from DNS Administration page, but wait for someone else to confrim.

For sure, you can shut down bind/named on your server.

Regards
 
"Use this server as mail server" > Yes, that is already unchecked.

"because you are not going to use DNS at all" & "For sure, you can shut down bind/named on your server." > Yes, for this user account, the other hosting accounts on this server will keep using named.

Actually that is the main question, can 1 user account stop using named/local dns management, and still resolve, while other user accounts keep using named/local dns management.
 
Yes you can, you may want to simply try to remove the domain from the DNS Admin page, it should do the trick completely.

Regards
 
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