Firstly, apologies if this is a bit of a "newbie" post, but we all have to start somewhere

I bought myself a SuperCeleron a couple of days back and have been following steps from various threads on here in order to make it slightly more secure. Now that I'm fairly happy, the real work can begin.

The problem which is currently causing me problems is that of nameservers.

I'm looking to set up my own nameservers, so I've gone into WHM and set ns1.purelyartistic.com and ns2.purelyartistic.com as the primary and secondary nameservers, selected 'Assign IP address' for each, and then 'Add an A Entry for this Nameserver'. This worked fine for both entries.

Here's my first question: for ns1 is selected the main IP address of the server. Will this prove to be a problem, or should it work fine regardless?

I have added 'A' name entries with my domain registrar for both ns1 and ns2 and set the IPs for each to be the same as the IPs WHM assigned. Are 'A' Entries the correct type to use (see image below)



I also hear things about informing SM to set up reverse DNS entries and I'm totally confused. Can anyone shed any light on what needs to be done here?

Have I dnoe the right thing in order for these nameservers to work or will I need to take further steps for them to function correctly?

To make things worse, the domain 'purelyartistic.com' is currently hosted elsewhere. Although it is my intention to move the site to my server, I'd prefer to wait until I'm sure that the nameservers are functioning correctly. Should I change the nameserver entries for purelyartistic.com immediately in order to prevent problems?

Anyway, sorry for the volume of questions, I've been trawling through Google search after Google search and thread after thread and can't find any definitive answers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks all,

Ant.

Ok, simpler question then

I added 'A' entries with my domain registrar for ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com (using the IPs WHM assigned). Is there anyway for me to know when these have resolved across the net? When trying to set another domain to use these nameservers, I was given an error "Cannot set nameservers - they do not exist", which I assume means that the changes haven't propagated.

I'm also somewhat worried about the domain pointing currently being on a completely different server - could this be the cause of me not being able to set the nameservers?

Thanks again

You can use the whois lookup here with the name server option: http://www.internic.net/whois.html
Example Result:
purelyartistic.com's DNS do not show A records for ns1 and ns2.purelyartistic.com yet, you may want to add the A records for them too.

The name servers shown here should have those A records:
It could take a while, maybe a day or two, for the name servers to be fully functional after registering them at your registrar and creating the A records.
P.S. Also check out this post: How to setup your name servers

Thanks Root, it appears that the changes have propagated and the nameservers are working.

I am having the following message of error when hit in 'Assign IP Address': 'Sorry, you are out of ips to assign as nameservers'.