Private Nameservers on a .co.za

[^^vampire^^]

Hi guys

I've looked on google and can't find any definitive information and what I do find is a bit outdated.
Basically I need to setup private nameservers for my .co.za domain.

I got a reseller hosting account from hostgator with WHM and I previously registered my .co.za a while ago and is currently pointing to a different server.

Can someone inform me as to how to get my private nameservers up and running?

Thanks for the help.

[rorz0r]

Assuming you have mydomain.com with HG and you want your co.za to use the pvt nameserers: You can ask them to set up private nameservers for you then you'll basically have ns1.mydomain.com pointing the the one namserver and ns2 pointing to the other. Then you can update your co.za with ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com.
Before you do the update just double check by running this command in a command line:

nslookup my.co.za ns1.mydomain.com

[MielieSpoor]

www.cloudns.net

[^^vampire^^]

Ok not sure if I explained correctly:

* I registered mydomain.co.za and is currently pointing to the hosting space/main account on a gridhost server.
* I now registered a reseller account with hostgator and they have provided me with the ip's for ns1.mydomain.co.za and ns2.mydomain.co.za

Now apparently (what I got from other posts) I need to do some setup in WHM to implement the nameservers, I need to setup return dns and then register the nameservers with uniforum.

Is this correct or do I have incorrect information?

[rorz0r]

You might be able to but not sure how good an idea it is.

If you think about it when someone requests the ip of www.mydomain.co.za the uniforum servers will tell them that ns1.mydomain.co.za is authoritative, then it has to find out that ip and goes into a loop. You can specify the ips along with the names and it *should* work though.

[server-admins.net]

Ok not sure if I explained correctly:

* I registered mydomain.co.za and is currently pointing to the hosting space/main account on a gridhost server.
* I now registered a reseller account with hostgator and they have provided me with the ip's for ns1.mydomain.co.za and ns2.mydomain.co.za

Now apparently (what I got from other posts) I need to do some setup in WHM to implement the nameservers, I need to setup return dns and then register the nameservers with uniforum.

Is this correct or do I have incorrect information?You need to do the following
Create two new records within your domain, for the new name servers - ie ns1.mydomain.co.za and ns2.mydomain.co.za.
You'll need to mail HG and get them to setup PTR records matching what you have setup.

As for the WHM section, not too sure on this as we don use it but google should assist in this regard. Once you have completed the WHM section you should be good to go and be able to register any other domains using your new custom name servers.

[SarelSeemonster]

You might be able to but not sure how good an idea it is.

If you think about it when someone requests the ip of www.mydomain.co.za the uniforum servers will tell them that ns1.mydomain.co.za is authoritative, then it has to find out that ip and goes into a loop. You can specify the ips along with the names and it *should* work though.

That's why you need glue records (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Domain_Name_System#Circular_dependencies_and_glue_ records).