How To Create Nameservers On Vps

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Use your VPS as primary for your DNS, then use a DNS replication service as secondary. This is simple and gives best reliability.

For your VPS: install and configure a DNS software. BIND is popular. djbdns is good.

As DNS replication (aka secondary DNS) service, there are several for free:

afraid
BuddyNS
Twisted4life

Find more services at this list of secondary DNS services page.

answered Jun 9 '12 at 17:55

michelemichele

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Ok, let's suppose that I want my nameservers appear as ns.mydomain.com, the only way to do this is setting up my own DNS server? or I can get my ns.mydomain.com using a external DNS service too?

Jun 10 '12 at 8:19
You can get personalized names on external DNS services also. This requirement is usually called "Vanity DNS" and is usually paid.

Jun 25 '12 at 21:51

Depending on the VPS hosting company, you can install and run your own nameserver on your VPS and have your nameserver like ns.mydomain.com. If you use the shared DNS, you will have to use the ns1.hostingcompany.com nameservers.

answered Jun 8 '12 at 23:56

laurentlaurent

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But I only have 1 IP, can I repeat the address for the second nameserver?

Jun 9 '12 at 0:08
No, but you can give two names to the same IP. For a usual setup, I would stick with the shared DNS, mainly because a DNS server will "steal" your VPS resources without adding much.

Jun 9 '12 at 0:19
obs: by names, I mean A records of course

Jun 9 '12 at 0:24

Your VPS hosting company may act as your secondary DNS servers, but for a small domain it may be just as well to use your domain registrar. This can make lookups a little faster for those servers that need to look up you address.

answered Jun 9 '12 at 3:55

BillThorBillThor

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There's a reason why at least 2 nameservers are required. Don't put both name servers on the same machine.

If you want to run your own DNS servers, set up another cheap VPS somewhere. It doesn't require a lot of resources. However, you'll need to learn about BIND.

answered Jun 9 '12 at 6:56