Setting up DNS for domain resolution from external nameservers

rexehuk · 2 Oct 2011 at 19:16

Hello all,

I have 4 domains on the following nameservers

dns1.namecheaphosting.com
dns2.namecheaphosting.com

I want to get my Debian server setup so that these domains point to my home network, how do I go about it? I can change DNS servers if needed, or host my own?

This is a first for me on Linux so any help would be brilliant.

Internal network configuration:

External IP: 62.31.121.92
Internal Server IP: 192.168.0.4
Internal DNS1: 194.168.4.100
Internal DNS2: 194.168.8.100

Rob

Moley · 2 Oct 2011 at 19:19

I'm curious to know about this too so will be watching this thread with interest.

rexehuk · 2 Oct 2011 at 20:11

I cheated.

I used URL redirect from my domain provider to my external IP.

http://www.tweetacious.com/
http://www.twitteract.com/
http://www.tweeteract.com

derfderfley · 3 Oct 2011 at 18:13

rexehuk said:
Hello all,

I have 4 domains on the following nameservers

dns1.namecheaphosting.com
dns2.namecheaphosting.com

I want to get my Debian server setup so that these domains point to my home network, how do I go about it? I can change DNS servers if needed, or host my own?

This is a first for me on Linux so any help would be brilliant.

Internal network configuration:

External IP: 62.31.121.92
Internal Server IP: 192.168.0.4
Internal DNS1: 194.168.4.100
Internal DNS2: 194.168.8.100

Rob

Surely you just need to log in to your domain providers control panel, and create an A record to point at your external IP address (assuming your external IP address is static ?

rexehuk · 3 Oct 2011 at 20:30

derfderfley said:
Surely you just need to log in to your domain providers control panel, and create an A record to point at your external IP address (assuming your external IP address is static ?

Aye that's basically what I've done now. Wanted to setup my server to go to the nameservers ideally, but this works just the same.