Hello everybody,

right now my domain name is registered with another company that manages my DNS.
The DNS entry then points to my linode hosting my applications.

I am wondering, is it possible to move the DNS to linode?
Does it have any additional cost?
What are the required steps?

Thank you for your help

You can move it so your DNS is hosted with us. Can't transfer it, however.
Free as long as there is one active Linode on your account.
- http://library.linode.com/dns-guides/configuring-dns-with-the-linode-manager

-Tim

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Perfect, thank you

What exactly should I do on the registar side?

i just pointed 5 NS records to ns[1-5].linode.com

is that all I have to do there?

https://library.linode.com/dns-manager#sph_domain-zones - start here

thanks, but i'm still unsure what i should do on the other end (the place i pay for the domain)

For the anchor you send in that page I assume importing should take care of that? I have a rather complex (not to say poluted) zone there. the import just created a few standard placeholders for www pointing to the linode node i have.

the check says everything is OK.

but

(0) ~
sellout$ dig www.example.com @ns1.linode.com

; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> www.example.com @ns1.linode.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29374
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.example.com.         IN   A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.example.com.      86400   IN   A   173.230.129.41

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
example.com.      86400   IN   NS   ns3.linode.com.
example.com.      86400   IN   NS   ns5.linode.com.
example.com.      86400   IN   NS   ns2.linode.com.
example.com.      86400   IN   NS   ns4.linode.com.
example.com.      86400   IN   NS   ns1.linode.com.

;; Query time: 43 msec
;; SERVER: 69.93.127.10#53(69.93.127.10)
;; WHEN: Mon Jun 10 17:58:07 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 145


(0) ~
sellout$ ping www.example.com
ping: unknown host www.example.com

(2) ~
sellout$ 

Did you really just go through the trouble of hiding your domainname but leaving your IP? (Do you have a secret website ?:o)

Troubleshooting is a lot easier if we see what you see. That includes knowing the actual domain.

Maybe he actually owns example.com!
(Joking - It's an IANA owned special case)

lol. it was late. no i don't care much for what is there. but usually the hostname is more sensitive than the IP. the IP you would already know... but i may be using dev.www.example.com with lots of debug information


here's what i'm still seeing on my ISP dns host

; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> tooist.com.br
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41756
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;tooist.com.br.         IN   A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
tooist.com.br.      1800   IN   SOA   ns1.dominios.uol.com.br. admin.uolhost.com.br. 2013061007 43200 3600 604800 1800

;; Query time: 466 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Jun 11 17:44:11 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 98

is my registrar puling my leg? from their admin interface i can see that i disabled all the nsX.dominios.uol.com.br

where can i find what the numbers there are about? i'm sure they mean something about how long to cache... but not sure what is what and in which unit.

We need to know the actual domain name though, otherwise we can only guess

Either way - as you saw in the SOA records which is also reflected in the whois:

nserver:     ns1.dominios.uol.com.br
nserver:     ns2.dominios.uol.com.br
nserver:     ns3.dominios.uol.com.br

The nameservers are still pointing to the old ones - so everything you set up in the Linode nameservers won't have effect. So you'll have co contact uol/dominios to get the nameservers pointed to those of Linode.
(And normally, whois changes are pretty quickly - I know SIDN (for .nl domain names) does it every 2 hours - but yours might be faster/slower - but taking days? Highly unlikely. uol/dominios should be able to help you with that.)

Good luck

If you want to use your own nameservers for dominios.uol.com.br you need to get uol.com.br to delegate the subdomain dominios.uol.com.br to separate nameservers that you control.

It might be easier to get uol.com.br to host your domain records for dominios.uol.com.br so you don't need to run a nameserver at all.


I recommend the book DNS and BIND if you actually do want to run your own nameservers.