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#1 Thu, 06/14/2012 - 10:32

perch99

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can anyone please help me with sever name. . .

i am confused since i tried to name my server which virtualmin run onit with any given name that come to my mind, but virtualmin said unable to resolve hosting name.

i do have some domain without hosting service, not yet, and confuse how to glue record or a record them to my server.

can anyone please help to explain? thanks a lot

#2 Thu, 06/14/2012 - 10:47

ronald

You need to have a hostname as: server1.mydomain.com
you would register the nameserver at your registrar for that domain or point the A record of the domain to your server
server1 A 123.123.123.123

#3 Thu, 06/14/2012 - 11:53

perch99

Thanks for the response, ronald .

so , if i have a server and static ip, i need to name the server something like server1.mydomain.com

and inform my registrar about my server name : server1.mydomain.com , along with the static ip number so that it would direct to my server?

thus the domain is relatedwith a known server name that is addressed at particular ip, does it work like that?

Thanks a lot.

#4 Thu, 06/14/2012 - 12:16

ronald

yes. In that case the server1.mydomain.com would have an A Record pointing to your static IP and you would use the nameserver from your registrar.

Another scenario is to have 2 nameservers with 2 static IP's and register those nameservers (ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com) at your registrar so virtualmin could control the records in your zonefile.

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