Hello, I have been looking for an answer to this and was not able to find one since all of them stated that you needed extra IPs. I've done this before and just forgot how to do it, but finally remember. Without further adeu..

For this we will assume that your domain is www.mydomain.com.

Also keep in mind that while you are a reseller, you can only go so far with completing these tasks, some of them requires our services, which we will happily provide.

If you are a dedicated server customer, then you can do all of the necessary steps listed below to properly set up private nameservers for your customers and not use any extra IPs.

Let's get started.

1. Login to your registrar panel (Godaddy, Enom, etc..)
2. Select the domain you want to use and find where you can 'Register New DNS'.
3. Put in ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com in the respective fields.
4. Put in the IP addresses (either yours or the ones provided to you by your host).
5. Hit the save/submit button.
NOTE: If you are a regular reseller, the rest is done by your host on their end, so notify them that you have done your part. If you run a dedicated server, read on.
6. Login to your WHM panel as 'root'.
7. Go to 'Reseller Center', select 'mydomain.com', click on the 'Edit Domains/Privilages' icon.
8. When the page loads, scroll down and put in the new nameservers, in this case ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com.
9 Save them and scroll down to 'DNS Function' and select 'Edit DNS Zone'.
10. You will notice that the new nameservers are now located in the top 2 text fields. Scroll all the way down to where it says 'Add new A entries'.
11. In the first text field put in the nameserver and in the second empty text field put in the IP address. So, it will look something like this:
ns1.mydomain.com 14400 IN A 1.1.1.1
ns2.mydomain.com 14400 IN A 1.1.1.2
12. Click Save and you are done!

Please remember that it may take some time for DNS to propogate.

Also, make sure to use IP addresses that you received from your host/data center.


If I missed something please feel free to comment. I'm pretty sure this is how you do it.

it took me quite some time before I figured out how to do that when I first got my dedicated server with NSs year ago. I should have written something like that too. Thanks for post.

Excellent post. You should post this over at cpanel.net forums, as there are often people there asking how to do this.

I hope they make it a sticky there.

ayksolutions - am I to gather that te name servers are nothing more than a sub dir on your sub dir of the main server?

Are web hosts selling services where the name server is a shared resource on a shared server. Meaning that a server with 50 websites could hypothetically have 100 name servers in addition to the 50 sites. And further this could be a 500mhz machine with a ide drive.

Now I realize why I have so much trouble getting to websites. I thought you needed dedicated name servers not just ips.

good info... setting up my dns when i started my server long ago was the only thing i had to "outsource" to get done right

Good post, will definitely save some people new to the business a lot of headaches.

Hello,

really nice update .... thanks for sharing...

Thank you.

Regards,