I currently have a reseller account which hosts about 30 domains. I am switching to a different reseller, but may have a problem.

Currently, reseller1 has given me ns.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com as my virtual nameservers.

Reseller2 has given me ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com as my virtual nameservers. The difference being the 'ns1' as opposed to 'ns'.

I know I will need to update the IP's provided by reseller2 for the nameservers at my registrar. But, all of my clients have used ns.mydomain.com as a nameserver, and some use registrars that ask for the IP in addition to the actual NAME of the nameservers.

So, is there any way for me to make the switchover to the new reseller without having clients update information at their registrar? Otherwise I'll have to walk all of my clients through updating their DNS info at their registrars...something I don't want to do.

TIA

yes:)
add to the zone file:ns.YOURDOMAIN.COM. IN CNAME ns1.YOURDOMAIN.COM.Replacing YOURDOMAIN.COM with your domain name
Remember after YOURDOMAIN.COM there must a be a .

The domain to add that to the zone file of is your hosts domain name, YOURDOMAIN.COM
If you don't know how to modify a zone file ask your host

Originally posted by roly
yes:)
add to the zone file:ns.YOURDOMAIN.COM. IN CNAME ns1.YOURDOMAIN.COM.Replacing YOURDOMAIN.COM with your domain name
Remember after YOURDOMAIN.COM there must a be a .


According to RFCs NS records must point to A record(s), it cannot be CNAME. So, I would recommend to use A record pointing to your IP address instead of using CNAMEs.