Using No-IP.com solution for redundancy?

[nhouse]

Hello Everyone...

Let me qualify my position in that I am not very deep in the DNS department. I have a fairly basic understanding... but would really appreciate your knowledge and suggestions. Basically, I am setting up a new CentOS 4 webserver with the latest version of DA. I love the DA product but wish to keep as clean & simple installation as possible. I want to have redundancy with my DNS though and have looked around at some of the product offerings that are available. Oh, and by the way... this is not an ad for anyone. I chose to try a product that no-ip.com offers called "Squared Backup DNS." This looked fairly simple and is pretty inexpensive. If you want to read the details, click HERE

With all of that said, in my head I think this what I should do... but please comment on the process as I want it to function as it should. Also, the server host is webserver.nhouse.com. the domain assigned to the admin's user account is nhouse.com. Oh, I had better mention that in No-IP.com's setup they ask for the primary (NS1) IP address to get their data from.

1. Go to my registrar, GoDaddy, and set the domain "nhouse.com" with custom nameservers which would include my typical NS1.NHOUSE.COM & NS2.NHOUSE.COM plus the additional 5 nameservers that No-IP.com sent to me in their registration confirmation email.

2. Go to my DirectAdmin control panel on my webserver and enter the new NS records for the 5 nameservers that No-IP.com sent to me in their registration confirmation email AND the "A records" pointing to the corresponding IPs.

3. Restart BIND.

Would this be the correct way to do this... or is there some other configuration that I would have to do to some conf file or something... this is where I get a bit lost.

Thanks so much for reading this lenghty posting.

 

[nhouse]

Ok, just to add a little more information for clarity...

I just got an email reply from a tech at No-IP.com who says my basic premise of the setup will be ok... AS LONG AS entering the records as described in item #2 above will allow for zone transfers. Would this be the case? I don't understand what gets updated by the DA control panel when we make these entries.

Thanks!

 

[nobaloney]

I believe that BIND set up by CentOS will allow zone transfers to slave nameservers as long as the nameserver records are in the zone files.

If not, you can certainly add a line or two to the /etc/named.conf file to allow them.

But I see a few problems:

No-IP is priced by domain. And it requires that you set it up for each domain. Every time someone adds a domain you'll have to manually add the domain and pay for it.

Jeff

 

[nhouse]

Yea... my first thought was to set it up for the main server domain and then service the other shared domains with the same nameservers. After reflecting on it a bit... I don't suppose this would work as I had thought.

Is there a way to do what I propose? In effect... to share the redundancy with all of the domains on the server? Whew, the more I think about this, the more my head swims...

 

[nobaloney]

There is.

Please see our post in the Advertising Forum .

Jeff