Setup server with Googles Public DNS

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Hey,

I’ve been trying to set this up for a bit over a week now with not much luck.

My server is currently unreachable by most of my traffic however I can reach the server using the hostname most of the time. I imagine there is something wrong with my DNS configuration. I’m a little bit new to this so I hope I can provide enough information

With my domain registrar I’ve registered 3 name servers

ns1.minecraftia.net 8.8.8.8
ns2.minecraftia.net 8.8.4.4
ns3.minecraftia.net 192.99.0.12

On the server I have the following records setup:

$ttl 38400
@ IN SOA ns4008781.ip-192-99-0.net. root.ns4008781.ip-192-99-0.net. (
1379033932
10800
3600
604800
38400 )
minecraftia.net. IN A 192.99.0.12
www.minecraftia.net. IN A 192.99.0.12
minecraftia.net. IN NS ns1.minecraftia.net.
minecraftia.net. IN NS ns2.minecraftia.net.
minecraftia.net. IN NS ns3.minecraftia.net.
ns1.minecraftia.net. IN A 8.8.8.8
ns2.minecraftia.net. IN A 8.8.4.4
ns3.minecraftia.net. IN A 127.0.0.1

Can anybody see anything incorrect there that could be causing this issue where people can’t resolve a hostname?

2

Howdy,

Hmm, there’s two problems that I see.

One, it looks like the DNS records being returned for minecraftia.net are internal DNS records, and not external. That is, “192.99.0.12” would only be available to users inside your LAN. Is that the desired effect, or do you want it to be public ally accessible?

Second, to my knowledge, Google’s DNS isn’t something you can setup your DNS zones on.

While users can use Google’s DNS for speedy DNS resolution, as a server administrator, you would typically need to setup your own nameservers (or use other services that allow you to setup DNS records).

Google’s DNS servers don’t appear to have your DNS zones on file though.

There’s info on setting up nameservers in the section of the following document titled “How do I setup nameservers for my server?”:

https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/dns/faq