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Author:  Amar [ Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:50 am ]
Post subject:  CNAME to Linode DNS's ?

Hello

So I have mydomain.com and a.mydomain.com / b.mydomain.com as nameservers that my clients use as their nameservers.

Well I switched to Linode and I want to take advantage of Linodes DNS's so my question is:

- I point mydomain.com to Linode DNS's
- I set a.mydomain.com CNAME to ns1.linode.com
- I set b.mydomain.com CNAME to ns2.linode.com
- I add my clinets domains in Linode DNS manager

Will something like this work ?


Thank you

Author:  BarkerJr [ Sun Jan 02, 2011 1:22 pm ]
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You can't point an NS record at a CNAME. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAME_record#Restrictions

Author:  iml [ Sun Jan 02, 2011 5:19 pm ]
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Use A records pointing to the ns.linode.com IP addresses if you want to do that. THEN you have to register these as nameservers with your registrar.

Author:  mnordhoff [ Thu Jan 06, 2011 7:17 pm ]
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That would work, up until Linode changes their name server IPs. (Which doesn't happen frequently, but could.)

Ideally you would tell your clients to use ns1-5.linode.com.

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