Hi Dears!

After creating a new virtual server with virtualmin, i want to set it up to work with the domain name i have at Godaddy.com.

I setted up virtualmin to use dyndns.

I added ns1 and ns2 to the new virtual server zone adresses in BIND.

I setted these last ones into the custom nameservers at Godaddy.com with the auxiliary dns ip of my isp.


It's supposed to need 24 to 48 hours to propagate the dns so i dont want to wait that time to see that is not working.. and doing it 17 times during 1 month.

So, if you can tell me if what i did is ok and why if it's not, it will be really appreciated!


Thanks and Regards!

normally I check if dns is okay with this tool
http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/

which generally gives result after 2 hours waiting for propagation if not immediately

If you're hosting at home, are you supposed to see your computer ip now after only 2 hours ?

I can only see which name servers i registered for that domain name in my godaddy control panel.

ns1.myserver.com
ns2.myserver.com


A question is... my ip is dynamic, so, i cant use it for these name servers in godaddy.

I readed somewhere that i only need to put my isp dns in it... thats what i did.

I'm using dyndns like i said and setted up virtualmin to work with but i cannot use an url for the name servers... so.. thats why i'm not sure if what i did is ok.


Thanks for the support!

By the way,, i can also see my isp dns that i setted up for the name servers.

Do i absolutly need a static ip pointing to my computer to set in godaddy for my domain name servers or my bind server will propagate them trought my network and trought my isp by port 53 and it will work in 1 or 2 days?

I'm sorry to didnt edit my previous post but you probably know that i can't.

I'm on the right way now with BIND but i'm not enough experienced to know what is my bugs so if you can help, i will appreciate.

This is what dns check of http://pingability.com/zoneinfo.jsp is telling me:


Warning zonevente.com does not have an IP Address (A) record

Heads-up There is no 'www' subdomain for zonevente.com

Heads-up The A record localhost.zonevente.com. pointing to 127.0.0.1 is a within private address space. This IP is not reachable from the Internet.

Information zonevente.com./my-external-ip is located in Canada (CA)

Information localhost.zonevente.com./127.0.0.1 is located in N/A (--)

Heads-up localhost.zonevente.com. points to 127.0.0.1, which has no 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa PTR record .


For the 127.0.0.1 adress, there's already an information in the 127.0.0.1 zone for pointing to 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa PTR record.

There's also an A record for www. in monsite.com.

For the ip adress (A record) of monsite.com, there's also an instruction in the adresses of this one..


I restarted BIND. Restarted the computer. Tried 329874897 other things.

If i can get some help, it will be appreciated!


See ya!

i have no experience with godaddy and dyndns
the best thing is always to have a static IP but you don't have one.
this is where dyndns comes in and it seems to me it isn't configured correctly since your ns show up and not the ones of dyndns

I'm just thinking outloud now but: "your BIND can not be used as a external nameserver but only internal for your domains. to use for email and such. the rest of the dns must be done by dyndns"

there are other users with experience in dyndns and godaddy and they can advice you much better than I can
Did you do a search in the forum?

I'm sorry to confused you with dyndns and godaddy. They have nothing to see in that... i think.

I'm using my external ip given by my isp(dynamic but dont change often) to understand well what i'm doing before taking a static ip.

for the ns1, i took my external ip.

for the ns2, i took dns of my isp (stop to work when i'm using my same external ip for the two ns).


An idea for the previous problem?


Thanks!

aha then I take it you are behind a router as well. I would first do and check the following:

at godaddy change the A record to point to you server. this would be the most easiest thing to do.
and
at virtualmin - system settings - Module config - server settings from drop down menu - make sure you set the "Default virtual server IP address" and "Default IP address for DNS records" correct.

then see how that works.
ns records are public records, internal IP wont work as they need to be public.
you can host all domains on 1 single internal IP like 192.168.1.100 though

For that response:

"at godaddy change the A record to point to you server. this would be the most easiest thing to do".

If i want to host someone who's needing to have my dns for pointing his domain to my computer,, can i if i do it like that?


About my settings, there they are.

In the virtualmin module configuration i have the followings:

Defaut virtual server ip adress --> from network interface.

Defaut ip adress for dns records --> same as virtual server ip.

In the virtualmin virtual servers panel, i setted up dynamic ip update to have my external ip adress pointing to the server behind the router.
(for sure, i forwared the corect ports to the corect adresses).

I opened ports 53 and 5353 in my linux firewall.


I can see that the dns query is answered by my server because of the 127.0.0.1 error.

When i put my external ip for localhost.zonevente.com A record in BIND, the query dont tell that error anymore.


What's the better thing to do?

here is an example of a zone file, where xx.xxx.130.15 is my external and also internal IP as I have no router:

$ttl 10H
domain.eu. IN SOA ns1.hostname.nl. postmaster.hostname.nl. (
2008032303
4H
1H
1W
10H )
@ IN NS ns1.hostname.nl.
domain.eu. IN A xx.xxx.130.15
www.domain.eu. IN A xx.xxx.130.15
ftp.domain.eu. IN A xx.xxx.130.15
m.domain.eu. IN A xx.xxx.130.15
mail.domain.eu. IN A xx.xxx.130.15
domain.eu. IN MX 5 mail.domain.eu.
domain.eu. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx a:domain.eu ip4:xx.xxx.130.15 ?all"
domain.eu. 38400 IN NS ns2.hostname.nl.