VPS Noob DNS Question

[barrow]

Hey everyone,
Cut me some slack here, I have never had a VPS in my life so I'm a little bit confused.

The Jag sign up form suggested I use AletiaNIC to register my domain for the VPS. So I registered the domain, and a little bit ago I got the notice that my VPS is ready. I logged back into AletiaNIC and registered ns1 and ns2 with the secondary and tertiary IP's that Jag gave me.

What confuses me is the DNS server for the domain. Currently they're pointing to:
dns1.name-services.com
dns2.name-services.com
dns3.name-services.com
dns4.name-services.com
dns5.name-services.com

Should I be changing this? Are those real DNS servers or are they just placeholders?

I'm assuming that eventually when everything is setup correctly I'll be able to hit server1.domain.com:2806 and I'll get to my cPanel, but it's not working yet. So that's what makes me think I don't know how to set DNS up.

Help me out!

[ethix]

im half alseep so take what i say with a grain of salt lol

but your domain (im guessing by your post) should be using the nameservers you setup for its nameservers

like
yourdomain.com
Nameservs
ns1.yourdomain.com
ns2.yourdomain.com

[barrow]

So not only do I register ns1.yourdomain.com but I set yourdomain.com's DNS to be ns1.yourdomain.com?

[ethix]

yep

cos if
yourdomain.com is going to be hosted on the VPS and the VPS uses ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdoamin.com

DNS queries for yourdomain.com will go to ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdoamain.com

[barrow]

Thanks for the info. I pointed the DNS for my domain to the two name servers I registered. Now I guess I'll just wait a day for everything to be fully propagated and hope for the best.

[ethix]

it depends upon your ISP on how long it will take
you can goto http://dnsreport.com/ to check out if everything is ok

and you could try an online proxy (to by pass your ISP's DNS)to see if your name resolves corretly also

[barrow]

I hate to keep asking questions but this is getting more interesting. I went to dnsreport.com and ran a checker against my server1.mydomain.com. Everything passed until the last check:

"A timeout occurred getting the NS records from your nameservers! None of your nameservers responded fast enough. They are probably down or unreachable. I can't continue since your nameservers aren't responding. If you have a Watchguard Firebox, it's due to a bug in their DNS Proxy, which must be disabled (31 Jul 2006 UPDATE: several years after being informed of this, there is a rumor that there is a fix that allows the Watchguard DNS proxy to work)."

To sum up everything I did:
- Registered mydomain.com.
- Registered ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com at the registrar site.
- Changed the DNS servers for mydomain.com to point to ns1 and ns2 at the registrar site.

[ethix]

maybe the registrar hasnt updated ns1 and ns2 to point to the new IP's yet...?
if you want you can PM me ot post the domain here and i will have a quick look before i head off to bed

EDIT: did you add the nameservers to the VPS via the control panel you are using?

[Rob]

it can take up to 72 hours for DNS to resolve to your server.

[barrow]

Thanks Rob, I might just have to put in some waiting time.

I noticed that I don't have any DNS Zones set up, should I? Should I create DNS Zones for ns1.mydomain.com, ns2.mydomain.com, and server1.mydomain.com?

[jason]

You should set up a zone for mydomain.com and add records to it for the three names you just mentioned:

NS records for ns1 and ns2
A records for seerver1 and any other names you may use like www, mail, ftp, etc.

--Jason