Need help with DNS

[micko_escalade]

Hi all,

I'm in the middle of switching from VPS to fully dedicated server.
On my old hosting all I had to do is from godaddy forward to their DNS ie. ns1.oldhostig.com and ns2.oldhostig.com and they also provided control panel where I could set A and MX records.

Now the problem is I don't have that with current company so I followed this tutorial Installing MyDNS And The MyDNSConfig Control Panel On Fedora 8 (http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-mydns-mydnsconfig-fedora8) and installation went ok, now if I ping my domain ie. mydomain.com I get I could not find host blabla,
but if I ping ns1.mydomain.com I get reply with ip that I set in godaddy CP.

Obvisosly I need to understand how this should be setup, I 'm doing something wrong anter many many hours thinkg thru whatever I tried I does not work.
can someone shed some light, I'm sure there's many people who run their own dedicated server and have this already setup.

[falko]

If you want to host the DNS records for mydomain.com on ns1.mydomain.com, then you need a glue record: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glue_record#Circular_dependencies_and_glue_records

[micko_escalade]

Thanks for the reply falko!
So I followed this (http://www.howtoforge.com/ispconfig_dns_godaddy) tutorial and by doing that I setup my glue records, correct?

[root@b04s79le ~]# dig ns1.mydomain.com

; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b1 <<>> ns1.mydomain.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 58271
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ns1.mydomain.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ns1.mydomain.com. 2665 IN A 64.85.xxx.xx

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mydomain.com. 2665 IN NS ns12.domaincontrol.com.
mydomain.com. 2665 IN NS ns11.domaincontrol.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns11.domaincontrol.com. 1441 IN A 64.202.165.115
ns12.domaincontrol.com. 1441 IN A 208.109.255.6

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 64.85.160.4#53(64.85.160.4)
;; WHEN: Sun Mar 9 12:48:54 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 138

[root@b04s27le ~]#


Then I followed this (http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-mydns-mydnsconfig-fedora8) tutorial
but when I want to test it I get this error


[root@b04s27le ~]# dig @localhost www.mydomain.com

; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b1 <<>> @localhost www.mydomain.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
[root@b04s27le ~]#

[micko_escalade]

I just tried dig from my still active VPS server and it works.

[root@linux ~]# dig @localhost www.mydomain.us

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> @localhost www.mydomain.us
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31881
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.mydomain.us. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.mydomain.us. 2352 IN CNAME mydomain.us.
mydomain.us. 2352 IN A 64.85.xxx.xx

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mydomain.us. 2352 IN NS ns11.domaincontrol.com.
mydomain.us. 2352 IN NS ns12.domaincontrol.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns11.domaincontrol.com. 171552 IN A 64.202.165.115
ns12.domaincontrol.com. 171552 IN A 208.109.255.6

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Mar 9 22:34:22 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 149

[root@linux ~]#

But problem is that I need to configure NS2 on myDNSconfig (http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-mydns-mydnsconfig-fedora8)
It gives me this error
Error:
This origin does already exist! The origin must be unique!
that's because there's already Origin: mydomain.com.
when I set NS2 then I can change from godaddy's to my own dns like in this (http://www.howtoforge.com/ispconfig_dns_godaddy_p3)tutorial

falko or anyone else please shed some light, thanks!

[falko]

IS there maybe another zone mydomain.us in MyDNSConfig?

[micko_escalade]

Yes, there's two, one is mydomain.com domain and other mydomain2.us
But when I want to create NS2 for ie. .us or .com it tells me

Error:
This origin does already exist! The origin must be unique!


EDIT:
I gave up. Thanks for your help!
Now I'm using godaddy's Total DNS Control (http://images.howtoforge.com/images/ispconfig_dns_godaddy/12.png)

[falko]

You must create ns2 in the existing zone instead of creating a new one.

[micko_escalade]

You must create ns2 in the existing zone instead of creating a new one.
Thanks for the reply falko!
Although www was set I wasn't able to get any reply with dig.
I set it up with godaddy and its working great so far.