I had copied this how to from two different post on here, but I can't remember where I copied them, plus I'm a bit busy right now. Since I had them copied onto a text file, here they are. Hope that helps.
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1st How to:
(Sorry, I can't remember who wrote this one from the top of my head, but it helped me a great deal.. Who ever you are. Thanks !! )
>>> hello to all, i managed to do it well and it seems to be working perfect now!
as far as what you will be managing on plesk7 on the dns link are templates please note that the tags
and are automatically setted by plesk to = yourmaindomain.ext and = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx main of your server. for this post i will use whatever.com as main domain and 10.10.10.1 as main ip address.
Go to your member area login, and request 2 ip addresses.
lets say that they assign you the next ips.
10.10.10.2 and 10.10.10.3
go to your domain name registrar and create the nameservers
ns1.whatever.com = 10.10.10.2
ns2.whatever.com = 10.10.10.3
Go to and Login in your PSA7 Admin area.
Click on the left panel on the link SERVER
go to the dns link.
then press the link default to reset the records to their default settings, when done, add a new NS reccord
you will see 2 text fields
Enter domain name [TEXTFIELD]..
Enter nameserver * [TEXTFIELD]
at this part! leave the first line (Enter domain name) blank (dont place nothing there)
and in the line of Enter nameserver type ns1.whatever.com
do the same to add ns2.whatever.com
***NOTE: remember that we will be using whatever.com as example domain name.
now add an A reccord.
Add a DNS record
Enter domain name * [TEXTFIELD]..
Enter IP address * [TEXTFIELD]
on the Enter domain name* field just type ns1
on the Enter IP Address* type 10.10.10.2
repeat this steep and add
on the Enter domain name* field just type ns2
on the Enter IP Address* type 10.10.10.3
now go to your main DNS page and it should look like this:
DNS records
DNS records (12)
Search
Search Show All Show All Remove Selected Remove Selected
Host Record type Value
. A
. MX (10) mail..
. NS ns..
. NS ns1.whatever.com.
. NS ns2.whatever.com.
/ 24 PTR .
ftp.. CNAME .
mail.. A
ns.. A
ns1.. A 10.10.10.2
ns2.. A 10.10.10.3
webmail.. A
till now it is working perfect on my server with this configuration, as soon as i can i will add images to this post so you can see it if you need to.
OR TRY THIS ONE HERE
Jaredweb.com
The Ultimate Nameserver Set-Up Guide for Plesk!
Welcome to the Ultimate nameserver setup guide to running your own DNS on Plesk. This will allow you to control your own DNS and never need to ask RS to change anything for you. If you have any questions about anything in this guide, please feel free to email me (sales@jaredweb.com) or PM me on the RS forums - jaredweb. Hope this helps! A thank you to Ladyhawk, Nighthawk and everyone else for lots of help when I was uneducated in this area!
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The scenario - You want to host many domains on you new plesk server. You also want to run his own DNS. You wants to setup ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com . You wants Each of your Domains on this server to use these nameservers, as well as the main server domain yourdomain.com. For ease of explanation I will use the following IPs.
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Main server IP - 207.44.220.62 (ip given to me with purchase)
Nameserver1 IP - 207.44.220.212 (ip given for DNS after requesting it)
Nameserver2 IP - 207.44.220.213 (ip given for DNS after requesting it)
Obviously since this tutorial uses these IPs and the domain jaredweb.com (my own), you will need to substitue in yourdomain.com where you see jaredweb.com as well as put in your own IPs.
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Step 1) Running your own nameservers requires your own IP addresses for each nameserver. Goto the member's area at Rackshack and click "request additional IPs" on the left menu. You must request 2 IP addresses, one for each nameserver.
You will recieve an email from RS stating that you have been assigned IPs. It will probably look something like this.
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4/1/03 2:06:18 PM
customer has been assigned the following IPs.
207.44.220.212
207.44.220.213
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Step 2) So now we have 3 IP addresses
a) main server IP - 207.44.220.62
b) nameserver IP - 207.44.220.212
c) nameserver IP - 207.44.220.213
We need to bind the two nameserver IPs to our server. This basically glues them to your server so that you can use them. Goto your plesk control panel and login. Click "server" then "IP Aliasing".
Here you will enter each of the 2 ips in the blanks, followed by the subnet mask.
Enter first set of numbers....
IP address - 207.44.220.212
Subnet Mask - 255.255.255.0
hit "submit"
then second set of numbers
IP address - 207.44.220.213
Subnet Mask - 255.255.255.0
hit "submit"
This is what the settings will look like when you've done them correctly.
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Step 3) You will now setup the Server DNS. Click "Server" in your plesk panel, then "DNS".
Add the settings as follows, but with your own IPs and nameserver domains.
these settings will be the default DNS settings that every domain created on your server will will automatically use.
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Step 4) We will now need to setup the DNS for Jaredweb.com's domain so that the nameservers will work.
Click "domains" then click your domain name from the list. Then click "DNS". Make sure that you have all the following settings, obviously putting your domain name / IPs in substitution of mine. Notice that since these are the DNS settings for the specific domain that our nameservers will use, we must add 2 A records for the IPs and 2 NS records so that the domain jaredweb.com uses those nameservers.
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(Thank Jared)
Step 5) Now you will go to your registrar (Netsol.com/Godaddy.com etc...) and register the domain if you haven't already (in my case jaredweb.com) and your nameservers ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com.
You will need to make sure that you point yourdomain.com to:
ns1.yourdomain.com and
ns2.yourdomain.com.
In the example case for Jaredweb.com we point the domain to
ns1.jaredweb.com and
ns2.jaredweb.com.
Also notice that I create two entries for nameservers. You need to create 2 nameserver entries, one for each IP address. My example for jaredweb.com is shown above.
Please note that it will take anywhere from 24-72 hours for the changes to take place. Don't bother telling anyone that your nameservers aren't working unless it's been atleast 3 days!
I hope this has helped you out. It's a culmination of hours of research and trial and error on my part. If there are mistakes please let me know by emailing me! Thanks - Jared Stenquist - sales@jaredweb.com