Single IP DNS setup with external DNS?

Harikalar Kutusu

• October 05, 2016 08:13

Hi, I've been using cPanel VPS for years now but I faced a primitive setup issue with a new server. Until now I had dedicated 4 IPv4's and used 2 of them for DNS server. This hosting provider gives only one IP and I'm stuck. I'll use this box for multiple domains. Assume: The machine is server1.mydomain.com Hosting provider DNS servers: ns1.hostingprovider.com, ns2.hostingprovider.com I did not move my main domain (www.mydomain.com) to this box yet !!! I accidentally declared two non existent servers n1.mydomain.com and n2.mydomain.com, so when I copied several accounts to this server DNS zones are messed up (extra cleanup step for me). Now I see the following options: 1) Server configuration => Basic cPanel & WHM Setup bottom Nameservers settings (set in initial WHM setup and had the faulty n1.mydomain.com and n2.mydomain.com, but I removed them). 2) Service configuration => Nameserver Selection: Set to "Disabled" as there will be no DNS server running 3) IP Functions => Configure Remote Service IP's => Remote Name Server IP's: I defined the IP adresses of ns1.hostingprovider.com and ns2.hostingprovider.com here. 4) Domain Name registrar: A test domain example.com's DNS servers are set to ns1.hostingprovider.com and ns2.hostingprovider.com And I'm lost... All information I could find is based on on-box DNS servers. Can you provide a link or help me? Thanks in advance...

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  cPanelMichael

  • October 07, 2016 03:08

  I've been using cPanel VPS for years now but I faced a primitive setup issue with a new server. Until now I had dedicated 4 IPv4's and used 2 of them for DNS server. This hosting provider gives only one IP and I'm stuck. I'll use this box for multiple domains.

  
  Hello, You shouldn't encounter any configuration problems with using the same IP address for multiple name servers, and to host your websites. Simply follow the instructions found at:

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  Harikalar Kutusu

  • October 07, 2016 04:25

  Thank you for the answer Michael, After some more reading I also decided to follow the same (and similar) documentation to give it a go. One problem was that WHM complained on using the same IP for the second Nameserver. A little DNS record editing was necessary after transfers anyway... Some more struggle, and everything is fine now :) Thanks again...

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  cPanelMichael

  • October 07, 2016 04:26

  I'm happy to see everything is working well now. Thank you for taking the time to update this thread with the outcome.

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