fshagan Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fshagan Posted March 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 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. I'll try that; the thing is that they would be: ns1.yourdomain.comns2.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".) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 I'll try that; the thing is that they would be: ns1.yourdomain.comns2.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".)That would be correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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