Dns Records Required For Nameservers

[Ice IT Support]

Hello all,

This is my first time creating nameservers, and I was wondering if someone could give me a list of records I need to create on the host server (PTR, Reverse Lookup, etc.)? In the end I would like them to look like ns1.iceitsupport.net and ns2.iceitsupport.net. Thanks!

[Guest xaav]

How about looking at this sample BIND configuration file?

 

$TTL 14400
$ORIGIN example.com.

; Specify the primary nameserver ns1.example.com in SOA
@ 14400 IN SOA ns1.example.com. webmaster.example.com. (
                               2008092902 ; Serial in YYYYMMDDXX (XX is increment)
                               10800; refresh seconds
                               3600; retry
                               604800; expire
                               38400; minimum
                               );
; Website IP Address specified in A record

      IN A 11.11.11.11

; TWO nameserver names

      IN NS ns1.example.com.
      IN NS ns2.example.com.

; Nameservers and their corresponding IPs

ns1  IN A 11.11.11.11
ns2  IN A 22.22.22.22

; Specify here any Aliases using CNAME record

www IN CNAME example.com.
ftp IN CNAME example.com.

; Set Mail Exchanger record with priority

mail IN MX 10 example.com.

[Ice IT Support]

Thanks! But I have two questions:

 

1) This is how HelioHost's nameservers are setup right?

2) So now I can go to my domain registrar and enter ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com as the nameservers right?

3) I assume, to create new subdomains I would use this:

example2 IN A 11.11.11.11
www.example2 IN A 11.11.11

for example2.example.com and www.example2.example.com.

I apologise for these extremely dumb (practically kindergarten level) questions, but I am new to DNS and I am still learning anything beyond A and CNAME records.

[Guest xaav]

1. yes.

2. Did you change the DNS IPs to the appropriate values?

3. yes.

[Ice IT Support]

Yes I will change the IPs once I receive my IP block. Thank you so much for your help!