Nameservers, More than 2?

#1 fshagan

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Posted 27 March 2011 - 12:25 PM

I have a customer who is having trouble changing from my old nameservers to the new ones. Its been three months since I notified him he had to do this, but hey, some things take time, right?

I still have access to the old child nameservers at my registrar, so I can edit the IP addresses on them easy enough.

I'm wondering if I can add them to my zone files, etc. so that they resolve to the new IP server, without replacing my real nameservers. Just not sure how to do this.

I don't want to replace the name servers I have set up in my DNS cluster (with one nameserver on my VPS here and one on a cheap little VPS running cPanel DNSONLY at brand X.)

If I manually edit the /etc/nameserverips and /var/named files to include the old nameservers, then add A records, would that work?

#2 MikeDVB

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Posted 27 March 2011 - 02:12 PM

Yes, you would just add a-records for them.

For example, if it's ns3.yourdomain.com and ns4.yourdomain.com and 173.248.1.1 and 173.248.1.2 you would just set the appropriate A-REcords for ns3 and ns3 on the "yourdomain.com" DNS zone pointing to those IPs.

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#3 fshagan

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Posted 27 March 2011 - 03:58 PM

MikeDVB, on 27 March 2011 - 02:12 PM, said:

I'll try that; the thing is that they would be:

ns1.yourdomain.com
ns2.yourdomain.com (my existing nameservers)
ns1.olddomain.com (the old nameserver)
ns2.olddomain.com (the other old nameserver).

I guess it doesn't matter if "ns1" and "ns2" are reused as the full name is different (i.e., "olddomain.com" instead of "yourdomain.com".)