As for the A records, I’m not following.. I thought the A records were the ‘IN A’ above.. If not what option and where do I put them. I don’t see any option for anything besides what’s there. How should it look?
I know I had the NS records or the glue wouldn’t work I thought. Let me see what is up with that.
Ok Now added:
|NS2.chappyis.com.|IN|NS|ata-webserver.chappyis.com.|
|NS1.chappyis.com.|IN|NS|ata-webserver.chappyis.com.|
|NS1.chappyis.com.|IN|A|50.43.63.174|
|NS2.chappyis.com.|IN|A|50.43.63.174|
This doesn’t make sense.
If you want ns1 and ns2 to be your name servers for the zone (chappyis.com), you need:
chappyis.com. IN SOA ...
...
NS ns1.chappyis.com.
NS ns2.chappyis.com.
Edit: changed it to show the way it’ll look in the zone file on a Virtualmin system, generally speaking. The NS records for the zone usually appear near the top just below the SOA section.
And, you should have no NS records pointing to ata-webserver.chappyis.com. (I mean, you can name your name servers anything you want, but you said above you wanted ns1 and ns2, so do that.)
But, the point is: An NS record should point to the name of the name server. With this:
You’re saying, “there is a zone named ns2.chappyis.com. and the name server for that zone is ata-webserver.chappyis.com”.
That’s how virtualmin set it up when I installed it I guess it’s using the hostname there? Does that mean I should change the hostname of the server as well?
Yep, it defaults to the hostname (because that’s a name that has a decent chance of existing and resolving). But during setup you also had the option to choose other names for NS records and not use that one.
It does not.
This is how the software set mine up.
$ttl 3600
@ IN SOA ns0.bogusdomain.tld. root.ns0.bogusdomain.tld. (
2025111305
3600
600
1209600
3600 )
@ IN NS ns0.bogusdomain.tld.
@ IN NS ns1.bogusdomain.tld.
bogusdomain.tld. IN A x.x.x.x
www.bogusdomain.tld. IN A x.x.x.x
ftp.bogusdomain.tld. IN A x.x.x.x
localhost.bogusdomain.tld. IN A 127.0.0.1
webmail.bogusdomain.tld. IN A x.x.x.x
admin.bogusdomain.tld. IN A x.x.x.x
mail.bogusdomain.tld. IN A x.x.x.x
bogusdomain.tld. IN MX 5 mail.bogusdomain.tld.
bogusdomain.tld. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx a:bogusdomain.tld ip4:x.x.x.x ip4:x.x.x.x ?all"
202301._domainkey.bogusdomain.tld. IN TXT ( "v=DKIM1; k=rsa; t=s; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAuUeXH+2zWuKUz" xxxxw2CdGatAXVIwGPf91+sBRkNc7WR47xxxkHacYI0+BLdz+QVKYmb" "r1H1Tbm1GBxxxxspkPLDalH+BSBbwQFuyMTVEf8ZGjAAPgKNSkLcl7OJFM/KAlL5mPPQTRPtL" "xxxxxxEk/qlQQQOAUSGSittZBYNlcspLzxxxxq8YdB2WRCIIxBu8jCptVPu/fsOtT" "NHHPeAuYp8rrj+XIkVsyLDo62oOXdD+y7Aoxxxxxmme8F4eHyy2+FldjVrjYQUxxxxwaDJo" "OmOTkZeaQIDAQAB" )
autoconfig.bogusdomain.tld. IN A x.x.x.x
autodiscover.bogusdomain.tld. IN A x.x.x.x
@ IN CAA 0 issuewild letsencrypt.org
jabber.bogusdomain.tld. IN A x.x.x.x
forum.bogusdomain.tld. IN A x.x.x.x
www.forum.bogusdomain.tld. IN A x.x.x.x
ftp.forum.bogusdomain.tld. IN A x.x.x.x
localhost.forum.bogusdomain.tld. IN A 127.0.0.1
webmail.forum.bogusdomain.tld. IN A x.x.x.x
admin.forum.bogusdomain.tld. IN A x.x.x.xSo, yeah, @ IN NS ns1.example.tld. is very reasonable. I guess we do that by default now.
Sorry, late and I’m tired so I kinda had second thoughts. Restore if you think it helps. Since this isn’t the record for the name server I wasn’t sure.
These are my actual name server records
ns0.example.tld. IN A x.x.x.x
ns0.example.tld. IN AAAA x:x
ns1.example.tld. IN A x.x.x.x
ns1.example.tld. IN AAAA x:x@ is a short-hand for “origin” or “apex” of the zone (which would be chappyis.com in this case, and that’s what we want name servers for in this case).
And, of course, just adding the records in the Webmin BIND module is also entirely fine and will get the syntax right.
Those are address (A and AAAA) records. You also need name server (NS) records. You showed those before in the one you deleted. 
Ok now I think I understand… I’ll check back in tomorrow with you after things propagated.
Does this look better in the meantime?
| chappyis.com | SOA - Start Of Domain | chappyis.com. root.chappyis.com. 2026010513 3600 600 1209600 3600 |
|---|---|---|
| chappyis.com | NS - Name Server | chappyis.com. |
| chappyis.com | A - IPv4 Address | 50.43.63.174 |
| www.chappyis.com | A - IPv4 Address | 50.43.63.174 |
| ftp.chappyis.com | A - IPv4 Address | 50.43.63.174 |
| localhost.chappyis.com | A - IPv4 Address | 127.0.0.1 |
| webmail.chappyis.com | A - IPv4 Address | 50.43.63.174 |
| admin.chappyis.com | A - IPv4 Address | 50.43.63.174 |
| mail.chappyis.com | A - IPv4 Address | 50.43.63.174 |
| chappyis.com | MX - Mail Server | 5 mail.chappyis.com. |
| chappyis.com | SPF - Sender Permitted From | v=spf1 a mx a:chappyis.com ip4:10.10.20.150 ip4:50.43.63.174 ?all |
| 202405._domainkey.chappyis.com | TXT - Text | v=DKIM1; k=rsa; t=s; p=KEY … |
| chappyis.com | TXT - Text | google-site-verification=pqa-KEY |
| autoconfig.chappyis.com | A - IPv4 Address | 50.43.63.174 |
| autodiscover.chappyis.com | A - IPv4 Address | 50.43.63.174 |
| _dmarc.chappyis.com | DMARC | v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; pct=100; ruf=mailto:vp71xejq@ag.us.dmarcian.com; ru … |
| NS2.chappyis.com | NS - Name Server | chappyis.com. |
| NS1.chappyis.com | NS - Name Server | chappyis.com. |
| NS1.chappyis.com | A - IPv4 Address | 50.43.63.174 |
| NS2.chappyis.com | A - IPv4 Address | 50.43.63.174 |
This says: “There is a zone named chappyis.com.chappyis.com. and the name server for that zone is chappyis.com”
This says: “There is a zone named NS2.chappyis.com.chappyis.com. and the name server for that zone is chappyis.com”
Unless you removed the dots from the end of the names on the left, for some reason (a . period is significant in a BIND hosts file…it means “this is the whole name”, if you leave it off, it means “append the zone name”).
And, you’re still reversing the name server and the zone the name server is for.
Once again, you want:
@ IN NS ns1.chappyis.com
Which says there is a zone named @ (shortcut for chappyis.com) and the name server for that zone is ns1.chappyis.com. Which is what you want.
Like this then?
| @ | IN | NS | chappyis.com. |
|---|---|---|---|
| @ | IN | NS | NS1.chappyis.com. |
| @ | IN | NS | NS2.chappyis.com. |
Or do I just remove the first one? @ IN NS Chappyis.com and keep the last 2.
only ns1 and ns2, I’ve never used the domain as a Name Server.
Whatever gets you to the proper address. Originally only larger entities ran things like DNS and they were on different machines. Preferably with one in a remote location. Naming conventions formed and allowed you to move the processes from machine to machine, location to location.
I did a quick search and still can’t tell if an A record is needed in the local records. I use one. Best I can tell from a cursory search, it depends.