Hi all,
I have read every post in this forum and tried to apply the information to my situation, but I still can't get it working.
I am new to dedicated server hosting but learning by the minute :-)
I want to set up my own DNS server. I would be happy to learn how to do it with Windows' own resources, but since Plesk seems to have its own merry way of doing things, I would rather use Plesk so that there is no conflict.
I already know how to register domains with a registrar and point them at SM's nameservers. I can set these domains up in Plesk and they are running perfectly. Now I want to set up and use my own nameservers.
I have the domain www.modularwebspace.com and would like the nameservers ns1.modularwebspace.com and ns2.modularwebspace.com. The intention is then to move all my other domains to these nameservers.
My main IP address is x.x.x.178 (shared). This is the IP I will be using to host all my sites on. I want x.x.x.179 to be ns1.modularwebspace.com and x.x.x.180 to be ns2.modularwebspace.com, and I want x.x.x.181 and x.x.x.182 to be free for possible future use.
I have registered ns1.modularwebspace.com and ns2.modularwebspace.com as nameservers at my registrar (Namecheap), and I have changed the nameservers for modularwebspace.com to ns1.modularwebspace.com and ns2.modularwebspace.com. I did this several days ago and the domain stopped working after a couple of days, suggesting the dns had propagated.
A search on dnsreport for modularwebspace.com finds the parent nameservers but can't find the nameservers.
My zone file (created via Plesk) looks like this:
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA ns.modularwebspace.com. mymail.myemail.com. (
1089139986 ; Serial
10800 ; Refresh
3600 ; Retry
604800 ; Expire
86400) ; Minimum
modularwebspace.com. IN NS ns.modularwebspace.com.
modularwebspace.com. IN NS ns1.modularwebspace.com.
modularwebspace.com. IN NS ns2.modularwebspace.com.
ns.modularwebspace.com. IN A x.x.x.178
modularwebspace.com. IN A x.x.x.178
webmail.modularwebspace.com. IN A x.x.x.178
mail.modularwebspace.com. IN A x.x.x.178
ns1.modularwebspace.com. IN A x.x.x.179
ns2.modularwebspace.com. IN A x.x.x.180
ftp.modularwebspace.com. IN CNAME modularwebspace.com.
www.modularwebspace.com. IN CNAME modularwebspace.com.
modularwebspace.com. IN MX 10 mail.modularwebspace.com.
I would be grateful for any advice about what I'm doing wrong!
TIA
neij