Pardon My Inexperience

[Jim]

Hi, I just got started with a Unixshell account and I had a basic question. I registered a domain through godaddy and they have a section where I enter in nameservers. Is that what the numbers in the other posting are for as provided by unixshell or will I need to setup a DNS server on my vps?

Jim

[jbw]

[QUOTE=Jim]Hi, I just got started with a Unixshell account and I had a basic question. I registered a domain through godaddy and they have a section where I enter in nameservers. Is that what the numbers in the other posting are for as provided by unixshell or will I need to setup a DNS server on my vps?

Jim[/QUOTE]


I hate godaddy, but at least they do offer nameservers.

The place to enter them is to put your nameservers. With shared hosting the host provides these. If you want to put in your nameservers you need to set them up on the vps and/or elsewhere. You could though just use godaddy's nameservers and point the domain to your VPS and avoid having to run a nameserver yourself.

[Jim]

On my former vps who ran a name server, I previously filled in somthing like
ns1.hostingcompany.com
ns2.hostingcompany.com

I can use godaddy and enter the ip address of my vps?

[MLetterle]

You may want to check out mydomain.com. They have some nice (free) DNS management tools, all you have to do is go to DNS management and add an 'A' record with the IP of your VPS.

[jbw]

[QUOTE=Jim]On my former vps who ran a name server, I previously filled in somthing like
ns1.hostingcompany.com
ns2.hostingcompany.com

I can use godaddy and enter the ip address of my vps?[/QUOTE]

Yes, when you go into their control panel and select a domain, look for an option near the bottom right called 'Domain Host Summary' if you want to make and host your own nameservers, else just use 'Total DNS Control' with the domain set to godaddies nameservers to set the A records to your IP.

[MLetterle]

[QUOTE=jbw]Yes, when you go into their control panel and select a domain, look for an option near the bottom right called 'Domain Host Summary' if you want to make and host your own nameservers, else just use 'Total DNS Control' with the domain set to godaddies nameservers to set the A records to your IP.[/QUOTE]

Actually...if he wants to host his own name server it would be a NS record no? An A record is probably what he wants though, this would allow everyone to access his VPS by the domain name (provided godaddy has their own name servers and that's what his domain is currently pointed to).

[jbw]

[QUOTE=MLetterle]Actually...if he wants to host his own name server it would be a NS record no? An A record is probably what he wants though, this would allow everyone to access his VPS by the domain name (provided godaddy has their own name servers and that's what his domain is currently pointed to).[/QUOTE]

No, it would not be at least for this part of things, you have to get them added to the zone file at the registrar. That is done with the 'Domain Host Summary' option. The NS records are at the parent record for the domain, and hence set by the registrar and not him. He wants to set A records either using the registrars nameservers as I said above, or at his on nameserver he would then run and delegate to at the registrar.


I am suggesting he just uses the godaddy servers and points the A record though am describing the changes needed in their panel for both options.

[Jim]

Thanks guys, I followed your advice to make the nameservers point to godaddy's and edit only the A record but i couldn't help but notice other options in the "Total Domain Manager of DOOM".

ie. CNAME aliases such as

mail
smtp
www

I would like send and receive mail via Pop/Imap on my very cool unix shell account. Does that mean I need to edit these options as well?

I am guessing somthing like

www points to @
smtp points to smtp.domain.com
mail points to mail.domain.com

Or should SMTP and Mail also be @?