Using ZoneEdit for additonal nameservers

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bruin03

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Ok. I have ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com on my directadmin box.

How do I create ns3.mydomain.com and ns4.mydomain.com using my direct admin account? I want DNS redundancy.
 
Then you should have ns1 on one server in one DC and ns2 on another server in another DC. And youll never get zoneedit to work via DA's built in dns manager.
 
ZoneEdit works through their own interface; you can set up ns3 and ns4 to point to ZoneEdit servers but you'll have to make additions at the ZoneEdit site. I don't know how complex it would be to write a script to manage ZoneEdit using curl, but it may be possible.

One way to manage redundant slave DNS is to have another DA server in a different location, and to use the DA Multi Server Setup option. Another way is to have another server in a different server (not running DA) and use Master2Slave, found elsewhere on these forums.

Contact me by email if you'd like information on a commercial slave DNS solution that will automatically slave DA servers.

Jeff
 
bruin03 said:
Ok. I have ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com on my directadmin box.

How do I create ns3.mydomain.com and ns4.mydomain.com using my direct admin account? I want DNS redundancy.
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I think I asked the question incorrectly. Let me rephrase it: ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com are in my directadmin box but I want to create ns3.mydomain.com and ns3.mydomain.com in ZONEEDIT to point to my DA box. How do I do that?
 
jlasman said:
ZoneEdit works through their own interface; you can set up ns3 and ns4 to point to ZoneEdit servers but you'll have to make additions at the ZoneEdit site.
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This is essentially what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to create ns3 and ns4 on the ZoneEdit site so that I can give those to my clients.

For example, ZoneEdit gave me 2 nameservers to use: ns7.zoneedit.com at 1.2.3.4
and ns8.zone edit at 2.3.4.6 (for example).
i tried creating cnames for each ns at ZonEedit (ns3.mydomain.com and ns4.mydomain.com for each ZoneEdit nameserver provided)

I then created A records at ZoneEdit so ns3.mydomain.com points to 1.2.3.4 and ns3.mydomain.com points to 2.3.4.6.

I then registered the names servers at my registrar(ns3.mydomain.com ->1.2.3.4, and ns3.mydomain.com ->2.3.4.6.).

I then created NS recors for NS3 and NS4 in direct admin.
What am I missing?
 
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