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Posted by TheITAdvisory, 04-02-2009, 05:27 PM
Having some trouble with Direct Admin name server setups. This is the first time we are using Direct Admin, and we are coming from cpanel. Here's the situation; Since I can't ever seem to get a hold of DA's support staff till the next day, I will ask yet again; here. I am a bit confused on how to setup the name server IP's in DA. Here is our situation... We currently have a cpanel server, which we are migrating from to our in house DA server. On the DA server we have 5 IP's. They are as follows; eth0 = 75.99.56.xx3 - main server IP for apache eth0:0 = 75.99.56.xx4 - ns1 eth0:1 = 75.99.56.xx5 - ns2 I want to setup a reseller account for jvs-hosting.com as it's what we have all of our customers under now. I then want to add them back under jvs-hosting.com. I also want the name servers to be the same for any new resellers we may add. I have read tons of tutorials on the net, and really none of them gave clear and concise directions. Thanks in advance.
Posted by VIPoint, 04-02-2009, 07:50 PM
You can simply have your resellers register their nameservers to those IPs at the registrar side. The only thing you need to do on your side is to modify the DNS templates for each individual reseller to use their new nameservers. They'll also need to create A records for their own nameservers to those IPs you give them.
Posted by dotRoot, 04-02-2009, 10:59 PM
In DA, you need to click Reseller and then NameServers. It seems a bit confusing, but Nameserver stuff is under the Reseller portion.
Posted by lemeneid, 04-03-2009, 03:20 AM
http://www.directadmin.com/forum/sho...=&threadid=130 Read the instructions here. And also don't forget to register those nameservers with your registrar or they will not point to your nameserver and thus not to your website.
Posted by Deem3n®, 04-03-2009, 05:58 AM
It is easy. Go to Admin Tools -> DNS Administration. Select the domain and add nameservers manually
Posted by TheITAdvisory, 04-06-2009, 02:35 PM
Thanks everyone. I was able to get it working. It's a tough switch from cpanel servers to a DA server.
Posted by hD-Scott, 04-06-2009, 07:49 PM
You mean it's easier!