Having a problem configuring personal nameserver for virtualmin. I am sure I am missing a step somewhere that is obvious, but I just don’t get it. All the guides I’ve found online, I have tried to follow but clearly am missing something somewhere.
Here is what I have so far
A domain that will be used as a nameserver, lets call it myns.com. I have changed all the DNS records at the registrar to point to my IP, let’s say it’s 123.45.67.89
I have a second domain that I would like to host on my server, let’s call it mydomain . com
I have gone into the registrar for that domain and have changed the name servers to ns1 . myns . com and ns2 . myns . com
What do I do from this point on. I have a brand new virtualmin install on a server. Outward IP is 123.45.67.89 the machine hostname is ns1 . myns . com
From what I understood I must first go to Webmin-> BIND DNS Server and create a master zone. There are already a few entries in there: 0, Root zone, 0000::1, 127.0.0.1, localhost, localhost.localdomain. Do I leave these alone?
Do I create a new master zone called ns1 . myns . com ?
If anyone could point me to some step by step instructions, or provide them to me, would be very much appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
~Krill
P.S. spaces between . in domain names are for posting limitation reasons
As far as I know you do not touch Webmin to configure your name server on Virtualmin.
Please read the documentation.
This FAQ “How do I setup nameservers for my server?” explains https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/dns/faq/
Alot of VM users say they use the same IP for ns1 and ns2
Yes, I’ve been trying to make send of that guide. So I add my nameserver domain to virtualmin add the 2 ns records to dns for that domain and that is all that is needed for the name server to work?
The most important part of the whole thing is registering your name servers with your registrar. Most people make the mistake of just entering their name servers at their registrar without ever actually registering them, so they never work.
That’s why I tell most people that don’t understand nameserver setup to just use Cloudflare. It takes 10 minutes and you’re done. I’ve told people here that three times in the last several weeks and all three of them have done it and thanked me.
Yep, you do that at your registrar as it says in the document.
"In order to use your Virtualmin server as a DNS server, it needs to be setup so that names like ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com can be input as a domain’s nameservers.
For that to work – you first have to go to the domain name registrar for example.com, and register your server as a nameserver. It’s usually as simple as inputting two or more names (such as ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com), and the IP addresses that are associated with them."
I use external DNS service so I may not be as knowledgeable. But please screenshot what you have done as you giving very little detail. Not sure why you need a cname. You need 2 A record for the name servers.