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Nameservers

The Master Organisation and any resellers can create nameservers under settings->platform.

These nameservers will:

  • Automatically be added to any customer DNS zones as NS records
  • Display to your customers in their hosting control panel if Enhance does not detect the website resolving to the correct IP.

You can create as many nameservers as you like. Ideally you should have at least 2 nameservers in separate data centres. All of your DNS zones for your entire cluster will be served by each of your nameservers.

Each of your nameservers needs to resolve to the IP of one of your DNS servers (servers in your cluster with the DNS role installed). Fpr this you need to create A records.

In this example we will assume that your hosting company is myhostingcompany.com.

  • If the myhostingcompany.com domain is delegated to nameservers outside of myhostingcompany.com for example CloudFlare or the domain registrar then you should create the A records there.

  • If the myhostingcompany.com domain is delegated to nameservers within its own zone for example ns1.myhostingcompany.com and ns2.myhostingcompany.com then these should be created as glue records with the domain registrar for myhostingcompany.com. This feature might also be called “nameserver hostname records” or similar. If you cannot find the option, contact your domain registrar for further guidance.

You should also create matching A records in Enhance. The easiest way to do this is to add myhostingcompany.com as a website, then go to the domains tab and add an A record for each of your name servers pointing to the desired IP.