Using external DNS instead of local?

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I have read through many posts about getting BIND working for your own DNS nameservers, but I want to use the nameservers my VPS hosting company provides (ns1.linode.com, ns2.linode.com, etc). I found a post that told me how to turn off BIND and make sure it doesn’t load on a reboot. I have records set up on my VPS hosting panel (Linode.com). It worked just fine until I installed virtualmin as my server panel. Now my site will not resolve.

When DNS was enabled and BIND was working, I added NS records for ns1.linode.com ,etc…still nothing, so I turned off BIND and still nothing. My GoDaddy account is set up for nameservers ns1.linode.com, etc. As I said, I installed a distribution and it was resolving correctly but then I remember, OH YEAH!! I need to install Virtualmin. Someone help please.

PS. I don’t want to use local nameservers before you even ask :slight_smile:

EDIT: It suddenly resolved. I was tweaking and trying things and had put everything back and suddenly it was working. What I don’t get is that I know the DNS had updated because it was resolving before I installed virtualmin. I had stopped BIND maybe 20 minutes ago. Could it be that it took that long for the local DNS to stop?

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Howdy,

You’d want to make sure that the “BIND DNS Domain” feature is disabled in Edit Virtual Server -> Enabled Features. Also, in Server Configuration -> Features and Plugins, you’d want to disable the BIND DNS Domain feature there as well.

As to why it wasn’t working… I’m not sure :slight_smile:

If an external client was connecting to your website – it should look at the whois information of your domain to determine the domain’s nameservers, and perform a lookup there. So in theory, the DNS settings on your own website shouldn’t affect lookups, regardless of how it’s setup.

So it’s possible you were seeing a DNS problem unrelated to you setting up Virtualmin.

But, without being able to see the problem in action, it’s difficult to say :slight_smile:

-Eric

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Seems to be an issue with DNS propagating its way through nodes. It continually goes up and down. I wish I could figure out how to set external DNS within Virtualmin so I don’t have to go add records manual in my VPS panel.