DNS Issues - Need help setting up new server Options

[Indy]

I'm moving from one ThePlanet server to another. When the original server was setup, I paid someone to do it. I've looked here and at ThePlanet website for step-by-step instructions and couldn't locate anything. Since I'm not an expert, I'm having a little trouble understanding how to properly set things up for the DNS. My registrar is openSRS and I want ThePlanet to be the nameservers, thus I would be using:

ns2.theplanet.com 12.96.160.115
ns1.theplanet.com 216.234.234.30

I obviously have questions and have formatted below my take on what, and in what steps, settings need to be addressed. Please look over and verify, or should I say correct me where I'm wrong.

Thanks!
Dan




STEP 1 - Make entries in cPanel/WHM
Under: Basic cPanel/WHM Setup

Hostname: Should be something like - usa.mydomain.com
Primary Namseserver: ns2.theplanet.com
Secondary Nameserver: ns1.theplanet.com
After entering the above nameservers, do I click on Assign IP Adress and/or Add an A entry for this nameserver?


Under: Nameserver IPs
What should I see?

Resolver Configuration
Do I need to do this?
When all is said and done, what should be in my /etc/resolv.conf?


At this point, what (if anything) should be listed if I click on Edit DNS Zone?
With the setup that I am doing, what should be listed?
Do I need to create DNS zone for root?
Do I need to create DNS zone for each domain that would be on my server?


STEP 2 - Request a DNS Change Request at Orbit Support Portal to have everything point to my new IP address?

STEP 3 - Go to OpenSRS and make sure the entries there point to the primary and secondary namservers that I input in STEP 1

[eth00]

Step 1 is fine for "
After entering the above nameservers, do I click on Assign IP Adress and/or Add an A entry for this nameserver?" yes go ahead and do that after you have added the IPs to your server.

Nameserver IPs will list those 2 nameservers once you add them above.

Resovler config is fine, it is just a script to modify /etc/resolv.conf

DNS zones should be fine if you did the assign A record without error.

Step 2 - if you run your own nameservers then you don't need to do anything with orbit for DNS.

Step 3 - Correct

Once the nameservers change over then everything will start to resolve based on what the new server sees.