Complete newbie questions

[falko]

Originally Posted by tristanlee85

When I installed FC5 (like the image above), I entered server.vasceria.com. So, in my registrar I added the host 'server.vasceria.com' with the IP leading to my computer. Is this correct?

Yes, that's correct. But the record doesn't seem to exist yet:

dig server.vasceria.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> server.vasceria.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 15896
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;server.vasceria.com.           IN      A

;; Query time: 278 msec
;; SERVER: 213.133.98.97#53(213.133.98.97)
;; WHEN: Mon May  1 15:40:36 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 37

However, it might take up to 72 hours until new/changed records propagate...

[tristanlee85]

I tried it now and I'm getting this:

dig server.vasceria.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> server.vasceria.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 53462
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;server.vasceria.com.           IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
vasceria.com.           3650    IN      SOA     ns1.phsynet.com. root.malibu.gigshells.com. 2006041101 86400 7200 3600000 86400

;; Query time: 57 msec
;; SERVER: 65.24.7.3#53(65.24.7.3)
;; WHEN: Thu May  4 22:00:59 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 107

I'm not exactly sure what that means other than I see my ISP's DNS in there.

I got another computer and set everything up from a fresh start. Everything went just fine. No errors at all. Now for the domain hosts. I setup 2 nameservers at my registrar: server.vasceria.com and server1.vasceria.com



I also set them up in ISPconfig:



So, for the domain vasceria.com, what do I replace the current nameservers (ns*.phsynet.com) with? It just doesn't seem like I would use "server.vasceria.com" and "server1.vasceria.com" as the name servers when they are the domain hosts, but I'm not sure.

[falko]

Originally Posted by tristanlee85

So, for the domain vasceria.com, what do I replace the current nameservers (ns*.phsynet.com) with? It just doesn't seem like I would use "server.vasceria.com" and "server1.vasceria.com" as the name servers when they are the domain hosts, but I'm not sure.

You can use server.vasceria.com and server1.vasceria.com, but then you need a glue record: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dns#Und...d_glue_records

Ask your domain registry to help you with that.

[tristanlee85]

I e-mailed them so hopefully they will get back to me. In the meantime, I did a DNS lookup on the domain hosts that I created as well as the nameservers that I used in ISPconfig. Here is what the DNS lookup gave me:

How I am searching:
Searching for server.vasceria.com A record at e.root-servers.net [192.203.230.10]: Got referral to J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [took 111 ms]
Searching for server.vasceria.com A record at J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.48.79.30]: Reports server.vasceria.com. [took 199 ms]

Answer:


Domain                    Type                    Class                    TTL                    Answer 
server.vasceria.com.       A                        IN                     172800             65.186.87.93 
vasceria.com.             NS                       IN                      172800          server.vasceria.com. 
vasceria.com.             NS                       IN                      172800          server1.vasceria.com. 
server.vasceria.com.       A                        IN                     172800             65.186.87.93 
server1.vasceria.com.      A                        IN                      172800             65.186.87.93

So, it's pointing to my IP address. I assume that's what I want?