i created an account with cloudflare to manage my dns.

but nginx is my favorite you simply set your dns record to the ip address of the nginx server confugure nginx to foward traffic to your web serves and finally you use ip tables to block all traffic o

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@john - Can I change reverse DNS through the panel, or is it by ticket only?

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You should not be using DNS on the same server your providing webservices. I am not sure why this is such a common trend these days; putting 2 ips on a single VPS and serving your dns services from t

The separation is done at the DNS level. A domain has 'A' records that point to the webserver, plus an 'MX' record that points to the mailserver. The MX record determines where mail is delivered via S

I was helping a friend setting up a small DLink Sharecentre NAS (http://www.dlink.com/ca/en/home-solutions/share/network-attached-storage/dns-320l-sharecenter-2-bay-cloud-storage-enclosure) on her hom

The problem does not relate to a missing rDNS record. If you visit www.dnsgoodies.com/ and drop my IP address into the Reverse DNS lookup, you do get a response:

Depends on what type of records you need. I ended up switching to a third party DNS provider (DNSMadeEasy) after I had a nasty time with one of my registrars and problems getting a DKIM key set up in

Are there any Domain registrars that do not host DNS NS? I host all my domains on Amazon's NS, would be nice to pay for the domain and not DNS.

in there, then afterwards you manage all DNS records using those third-party dns providers.

Thanks. I was actually looking into internetbs, but then I've come across some topic @vpsboard saying that their DNS servers are not as good.

Then check the powerdns config isn't set to connect to an outside dns server (I've not used PowerDNS before).

I edit resolv.conf and do this and it can still pickup DNS - Does the OpenVZ container host force DNS e.g. I can't do my own thing manually?

@rds100 - i'm playing around with PowerDNS and i'm trying to test to see that it returns records. I'm doing dig @localhost mx mydomain.com but its returning Google's DNS's answers and not those within

Did you restart the DNS process / reboot the server?

I've disabled all the 'nameserver = xyz' entries in /etc/resolv.conf and checked for DNS entries in /etc/networking/interfaces (and there are none I can see) however my OpenVZ VPS is still resolving D

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My setting in the DNS is :