How to do this...? Please help

[Peace]

I want to assign different nameservers to my subdomains (so I can host them at different places), and someone told me that I have to put an A record for each name in the nameserver and point them to different addresses. I have no idea how to do that...exactly where in the cpanel I can do that? and how?

Please help...Thanks

 

[axilant]

Im pretty sure you will need your host to set this up. You need to be edit the MX records and you need to do that with WHM. Ask your host, if your not sure

 

[RJ]

If I understand properly, your domain is example.com

Subdomain1 is site1.example.com and will be pointing at 192.100.101.102 at one hosting provider

Subdomain2 is site2.example.com and will be pointing at 201.291.58.23 at another hosting provider

You need to find out the IP address for each of the different subdomains. Wherever is hosting it will be able to give you this info. If the host is insisting that you have to change the nameservers to their nameservers they are wrong.

Question is, who is controlling the DNS services for example.com? You can't have different sets of nameservers for a domain and its subdomains. There is one set of nameservers per domain and that nameserver will be in charge of directing the subdomains to their respective IP address.

If you are controlling the DNS through WHM, you go to DNS Functions -> Edit a DNS Zone -> (select domain to edit) -> At bottom add a new entry
First column: The name of your new subdomain (put site1 if its going to be site1.example.com)
Second column: 1440 (should be there already)
Third column: A
Fourth column: enter IP address where subdomain will be hosted.

If you're not controlling the nameservers for your domain, you have to ask whoever is to do this for you. If the name is at eNom, you can use their DNS services to accomplish this instead.

Let me know what questions you have or what step you're stuck at or need clarification.

 

[smashface]

Question is, who is controlling the DNS services for example.com? You can't have different sets of nameservers for a domain and its subdomains. There is one set of nameservers per domain and that nameserver will be in charge of directing the subdomains to their respective IP address.

He should also be able to delegate the subdomains to another nameserver.

Note: It's early and I haven't eaten yet - YMMV :blink:

subdomain.foo.com IN NS some.other.nameserver.com
subdomain.foo.com IN NS still.another.nameserver.com

chris

 

[Peace]

If I understand properly, your domain is example.com

Subdomain1 is site1.example.com and will be pointing at 192.100.101.102 at one hosting provider

Subdomain2 is site2.example.com and will be pointing at 201.291.58.23 at another hosting provider

You need to find out the IP address for each of the different subdomains. Wherever is hosting it will be able to give you this info. If the host is insisting that you have to change the nameservers to their nameservers they are wrong.

Question is, who is controlling the DNS services for example.com? You can't have different sets of nameservers for a domain and its subdomains. There is one set of nameservers per domain and that nameserver will be in charge of directing the subdomains to their respective IP address.

If you are controlling the DNS through WHM, you go to DNS Functions -> Edit a DNS Zone -> (select domain to edit) -> At bottom add a new entry
First column: The name of your new subdomain (put site1 if its going to be site1.example.com)
Second column: 1440 (should be there already)
Third column: A
Fourth column: enter IP address where subdomain will be hosted.

If you're not controlling the nameservers for your domain, you have to ask whoever is to do this for you. If the name is at eNom, you can use their DNS services to accomplish this instead.

Let me know what questions you have or what step you're stuck at or need clarification.

Thanks alot RJ!

However I have a question: So if the host (sub domains) is insisting that we have to change the nameservers to their nameservers, then we can't do this?

Any way to assign different nameservers for the subdomains?

Thanks

 

[RJ]

If the host insists you have to use their nameservers, they are incorrect. Maybe because they don't fully understand the workings of DNS, but no need to tell them this though. The goal is to find out what IP address the subdomain is supposed to be pointing at and then use your own DNS to point it there (instead of theirs).

If they don't give you an IP address and only tell you nameservers, you can still find out what you need. To do so you need to do a "dig" on their nameserver for your domain.

Go here, enter their nameserver and your (sub)domain and see what IP results in the "A" record.
http://us.mirror.menandmice.com/cgi-bin/DoDig

Use that IP address to setup an "A" record for the subdomain under your own DNS and you're all set.