To setup nemaservers of my dedicated server can I use my domain name for my web site or it must be domain name which is not in use by web site ?

If nameservers are named like ns1.something.com must I create subdomain ns1.something.com or this is not a case .

Both nameservers (primary and secondary) must have separated IP or not. What is usually for that

Thanks

You can use any domain for your name servers, well any domain you have set up on your server. If your domain is named mydomain.com then the way most people do it is set up ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com or something similar.

You may need to create a subdomain but it's not required, it just depends on how things are set up.

Yea you usually use seperate ip's for each name server.

:cool:

You cannot create subdomains to do this. Your DNS server needs to be registered with the internet listing of DNS servers. To do this, you normally need to go to the management system that you get with your domain registration. For example, directnic.com has a little sign-in system. When you go there, there should be a link to "create a domain name server". You do that, name it something like ns1.domain.com, and then wait a couple days for it to propagate to dns servers around the world, and then, you can go ahead and configure it.

As for IPs, you MUST have a separate IP for each DNS server. If you want to "cheat", you can have two nics in the DNS server, and give each a different IP, and run both ns1 and ns2 off of that machine (you are required by most domain registrars to have at least 2 DNS servers listed for each domain.)

Yea I figured they already new that they had to register the name servers with their registrar. I figured they were asking about creating subdomains on the server after they had registered the name servers.

Also you can register as many name servers as you'd like using only one ip address as long as your registrar will alow you to do so. :D

And yea you usally use a seperate ip for each name server!

Or do you? :rolleyes:

Originally posted by deadserious
I figured they were asking about creating subdomains on the server after they had registered the name servers.

No, you don't create subdomains on the server, if you do, it doesn't do anything, as when ns1.domain.com is looked up, the national database of DNS servers is looked up, not your personal server. In fact, if you realize the logic on that, it makes no sense. How can your name server be running DNS service for the domain it's listed on?

And yea you usally use two seperate ip's for each name server!
Or do you? :rolleyes:

Uhh, not sure if you meant this as a joke ... but 2 separate ips for each name server ... check that over. With 2 name servers, that makes 4 ips. :)

Originally posted by cubision

No, you don't create subdomains on the server, if you do, it doesn't do anything, as when ns1.domain.com is looked up, the national database of DNS servers is looked up, not your personal server. In fact, if you realize the logic on that, it makes no sense. How can your name server be running DNS service for the domain it's listed on?

I've seen it work perfectly fine before (ex: you've registered two name servers ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com at your registrar and you've also set up ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com as subdomains on the server). I've seen it work with no problems. :) I once had a domain and name servers set up this way, and it didn't hurt anything. But I see what you're saying.
Originally posted by cubision

Uhh, not sure if you meant this as a joke ... but 2 separate ips for each name server ... check that over. With 2 name servers, that makes 4 ips. :)
Oops! lol that was just little typo..... I meant you usually use a seperate ip for each name server

Right, what I'm saying, is that those ns1.domain.com entries into your domain name server don't do anything. Not that they are bad, but that nobody ever uses them during the lookup, as their request goes straight to the national list.