Hi All,

Brand new to linode, just signed up yesterday.

I thought I had the DNS all figured out until I read the forums and now I am confused.

I obviously have my main ip that was created when I joined. I have my linode running.

The domain I want to associate with the linode is nubodyorganics.com which I registered at godaddy. If I am correct, I need to go to godaddy and set the nameservers for nubodyorganics to:

ns1.linode.com, ns2.linode.com, ns3.linode.com and ns4.linode.com

(My node is located in Dallas. In my dashboard it has under "Host Summary' dallas124.linode.com, I assume that is not the nameserver I need to use, or is it?)

Now that nubodyorganics.com nameservers at godaddy are ns(1 - 4).linode.com the domain is now pointed to linode. In my DNS Manager, I need to select 'Add a new domain zone' and place nubodyorganics.com in the domain field and select master as the type.

My primary IP address will now be showing nubodyorganics.com.

I will have to do same thing for www.nubodyorganics.com in my domain manager as well.

Now the confusing part, I bought an additional ip as well and I thought it should be eth0:1 but both the primary ip and the addon ip are displaying as eth0: in my network settings under the network tab in my dashboard.

I have installed centos 5.2-64 bit as my disk image. I have not added or deleted anything from it. I am installing cpanel/whm and I know that they will be asking for the hostname and ip address for the license. Is hostname nubodyorganics.com or my linode number, or dallas124.linode.com that is displayed under 'Host Summary' in my dashboard, or what?

Also, they will ask for resolvers, I assume those are the 3 dns servers ips listed on my network settings.

Sorry for such a long post. You help is appreciated.

Chris

dallas124.linode.com is just the name of the physical server where your VPS is located. It does NOT point to your VPS. So you never need to refer to it unless you're connecting to Lish (the emergency console).

The network settings page shows all your public IP's under eth0. Inside your VPS, you can differentiate between them by binding the first one to eth0, second one to eth0:0, third one to eth0:1, etc. (This might depend on your Linux distro.)

You can use any domain name that points to your VPS as your hostname. Pick one that's convenient for you. But Apache sometimes has weird issues when the domain name of a virtual host is identical to the server's hostname. I don't know how cPanel would handle this, but I'd recommend creating a subdomain in the DNS manager (e.g. server1.yourdomain.com) just for the purpose of using it as your hostname.

If you're going to use cPanel, make sure you've got plenty of RAM! It's such a hog....

Thanks Hybinet

I have the 1080 plan. I may upgrade to 1440.

Thanks!

Chris