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Old September 22nd, 2003, 12:34 AM
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Question Personal NameServer Not Working
The nameservers for my domain are:

ns1.myhost.com -> *.*.*.142
ns2.myhost.com -> *.*.*.143

I set up registered my nameservers at my registrar, Namecheap as such:
ns1.mydomain.com -> *.*.*.142
ns2.mydomain.com -> *.*.*.143

However, after changing my domain ns records to ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com and after propagation, Going to mydomain.com doesn't load my webpage, but rather the default page for *.mydomain.com (where * can be anything)

What did I do wrong?

Could it be because there are no NS records on my actual nameserver (ns1.myhost.com) for ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com?

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Old September 22nd, 2003, 04:47 AM
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Ahh lol there were some forums I went to that didn't allow you to put in your actual url... webmasterworld.com if I remember correctly.

Anyway here's the correct version:


The nameservers for my domain are:

ns1.dh.com.sg -> 203.117.141.142
ns2.dh.com.sg -> 203.117.141.143

I set up registered my nameservers at my registrar, Namecheap as such:
ns1.ebloggy.com -> 203.117.141.142
ns2.ebloggy.com -> 203.117.141.143

However, after changing my domain ns records at Namecheap to ns1.ebloggy.com and ns2.ebloggy.com and after propagation, Going to ebloggy.com doesn't load my webpage, but rather the default page for *.ebloggy.com (where * can be anything; try typing http://anything.ebloggy.com)

What did I do wrong?

Could it be because there are no NS records on my actual nameserver (ns1.dh.com.sg) for ns1.ebloggy.com and ns2.ebloggy.com.com?

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The nameservers for my domain are:

What domain?
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[root@exp root]# dnsqr any ebloggy.com
255 ebloggy.com:
150 bytes, 1+3+2+2 records, response, noerror
query: 255 ebloggy.com
answer: ebloggy.com 84359 A 203.117.141.144
answer: ebloggy.com 84359 NS ns1.dh.com.sg
answer: ebloggy.com 84359 NS ns2.dh.com.sg
authority: ebloggy.com 84359 NS ns1.dh.com.sg
authority: ebloggy.com 84359 NS ns2.dh.com.sg
additional: ns1.dh.com.sg 84982 A 203.117.141.142
additional: ns2.dh.com.sg 84982 A 203.117.141.143
[root@exp root]#

Is 203.117.141.144 the IP address you were expecting to be published as the A record for ebloggy.com? If so, then the problem lies with your HTTP server virtual host configuration.
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That is correct.

Which means I'll have to contact my host to make what changes?
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Which means I'll have to contact my host to make what changes?

To configure their HTTP server to serve requests out of the ebloggy.com document root in response to requests for ebloggy.com or www.ebloggy.com
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My host already serves my document root when ebloggy.com is requested. Only if ns1.ebloggy.com is used instead of ns1.dh.com.sg, then will it not work.

How do I configure it on my host?
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Only if ns1.ebloggy.com is used instead of ns1.dh.com.sg, then will it not work.

Ask them to configure it to serve files out of the ebloggy.com document root in response to requests for ns1.ebloggy.com as well.
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Thanks a bunch!

Do you have any websites, FAQ, message boards, or books to recommend me?

I'm switching to Linux Redhat soon, and I'm a complete newbie. Will be trying to work out stuff like DNS, HTTP, PHP, MySQL, cron, IP stuff and basically know as much as possible.
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Do you have any websites, FAQ, message boards, or books to recommend me?

For Apache, the documentation at http://httpd.apache.org/docs has always been fine for me.

For DNS, I'd strongly recommend using Dan Bernstein's djbdns instead of BIND. djbdns is far more secure (never had a security hole), robust and easy to configure.

As for PHP and MySQL, the tutorials on DevShed were enough to get me started a few years ago. Also, there's a good book called PHP and MySQL Web Development which you can get from Amazon.

Message boards: this one is pretty good.
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