DNS Server address

Hi Michael -- is your DNS server the same as your Virtualmin server?

If so, that should be fairly straight forward to setup.

Generally, most registrars require you to have two separate IP addresses for the nameservers (even if both IP's are on the same server).

At that point -- the names you use don't matter so long as they each resolve to one of the IP addresses on your server.

So, if you own the domain "example.com" -- it's common to setup nameservers using the format "ns1.example.com" and "ns2.example.com".

And then, you'd just setup ns1.example.com to point to one IP address on your server, and ns2.example.com to point to the other IP address.

Making them point to your IP's can be done by adding an "Address" or "A" record in the DNS. In Virutalmin, that's done by selecting "example.com" from the drop-down list on the top-left, going into Services -> DNS Domain -> Address, and then pointing the name "ns1" to your first IP address, and "ns2" to your second IP address.

At that point, the rest can be setup in your registrar.

Does that answer your question?

That helps a lot, but do the 2 IP address have to be unoccupied. I have 4 IP's on my server, but I have a web site attached to each one

It shouldn't matter at all, as the BIND DNS Server listens on all IP addresses by default.

If I have 2 shared IP's could I create a Virtual Server, with the names ns1.myserver.com. and another one called ns2.myserver.com

You may be trying to make it a bit harder than it needs to be :-)

They don't need to be Virtual Servers... the only thing you need to do with ns1 and ns2 is go into "myserver.com", and add "Address" records for ns1 and ns2. Since BIND listens on all IP addresses, it doesn't matter which two you pick to have ns1 and ns2 resolve to.

Do these ns1, and ns2 have to be registored?

Once you add DNS "Address" records for ns1 and ns2, you don't need to do anything else on your server to set it up.

You would likely need to do some configuration at your domain name registrar, though. Domain name registrars typically require that you register nameservers with them before you can actually set any given domain name to use those nameservers.

How exactly to do that is dependent on your domain name registrar, though you should see some menu options for registering a group of nameservers and their related IP addresses.

Where do I change the servers name? nameservers are. NS1.ASRSERVICE.COM, NS2.ASRSERVICE.COM

Well, while your servers hostname should not need to match any of the nameserver names, I suspect there's a setting we can tune to correct that issue.

First, if you go into System Settings -> Server Templates -> Default -> BIND DNS Domain, look for the option named "Master DNS server hostname". Set that to "NS1.ASRSERVICE.COM".

Then, if you go into Servers -> DNS Domain -> NameServers, change the current nameserver from Localhost.local.domain to be "NS1.ASRSERVICE.COM".

My email address at one of the Registrar is not working. does that mean that I can't use that email address

It sounds like you're saying that your domain asrservice.com at one point had it's email hosted at your registrar, but you're now saying that, after changing the nameservers, the email isn't working.

If that's the case, the issue is likely that the MX records now point to your server.

That leaves you with two options:

1. Go into Services -> DNS Domain -> Mail Server, and change the Mail Server (MX) record to point to your registrars email. After that, your email should begin to work again at your registrar.

2. Setup your email client to use your Virtualmin server for email.You can setup your email client to connect to "asrservice.com" to send/receive email.

You can also browse to "webmail.asrservice.com" in your web browser to access your email over the web using Usermin.

The MX records are "MailServer" records. They specify where email goes for your domain.

By default, if you're using Virtualmin to control your DNS, it will setup email to go to your Virtualmin server.

If you'd like your email to go to your domain name registrar, then you'd need to go into Services -> DNS Domain, remove the existing MailServer records, and replace them with where you want your email to go.

In your case, you'd create MailServer records using the last 3 lines that you listed.

The character "@" is a BIND variable that means "the current domain name".

So, add the Virtual Server's domain name, followed by a ".", in the "Name" field (it would look like "example.com.").

In the Mail Server field, add "forwardNNN.nameresolvers.com.". Again, make sure there's a "." at the end of the name (they didn't include one in the list they gave you, but it won't actually work without that).

Also I don't understand the Priority, what do I set it at

The numbers they gave you -- 10, 30, and 100 -- are the priority.

Also do I access my email from my server, or do I use the access info for my registrar's Server?

The steps we're doing here are making it so that email will go to your registrar's server. Once you've put all this in place, you wouldn't need to access email on your server.

Alternatively, if you want to use mail on your server, you'd have to setup your email addresses and aliases in Virtualmin. You can do that by logging into Virtualmin, and going to "Edit Mail and FTP" users, as well as "Edit Mail Aliases".

Once you have your email accounts and aliases setup, you can access it using something like Usermin, by pointing your web browser to:

https://your_domain.tld:20000

And then log in using the username and password you've setup for your account.