semantics of "nameservers for the server"?

[artichoke]

The online help at http://admin.site-helper.com/settings.html says under the subheading "Server Settings":

"The NS1/NS2 fields define
the default (or primary)
nameservers for the server."

I know I must be missing something very obvious. But I am having trouble understanding what this means. I have always mentally associated name servers with a a domain, not with a specific server. How should I interpret the phrase "nameservers for the server"?

Suppose our machine has the fqdn hostname XXX.EXAMPLE.COM. Should I be entering two name servers that provide DNS for the domain EXAMPLE.COM? And after I do, in what way will Directadmin use this information?

I have a suspicion that I need to change my mental model in order to understand Directadmin terminology. All my life I have thought of domains and machines as being independent of each other -- you can have multiple machines in a domain, or multiple domains on a machine, or any combination thereof. Should I now be changing this mental model somehow? Sorry if this question is too abstract. I really am struggling to understand the terminology.

Rahul

 

[nobaloney]

I've been managing DNS for thousands of domain for what seems like a thousand years (since the mid 90s, anyway ), and I agree that I had a hard time understanding DA terminology and methodology for nameservers.

But the answer to this one is simple once you learn it... it means these nameservers will be set up in new zone files if you don't define others.

Jeff

 

[artichoke]

...these nameservers will be set up in new zone files if you don't define others.

Thanks. This is so obvious now that I see it stated.

Rahul