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

You can't point an NS record at a CNAME. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAME_record#Restrictions

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.

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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