Hi! I need help from you guys. I purchase a Domain name and I want to set it up the DNS to point to my server at home. I ask help from my registrar and told me that they dont suppost a custom dns. I just created a A Record like www then point it to my ip address.

Please visit this link http://www.i-bsc.com/wizzkid/mydns.png and you should be able to see the snapshot of my registrars control panel. Kindly please take a look and let me know if it should work or I did something wrong.

I am running Apache, Email and FTP server.

Also, how to create a DNS server, like if i have new domain i just change its name server to ns1.myprimarydomain.com and ns2.primarydomain.com.

Thanks.

to create the DNS server you guessed it correctly. But you will have to mention it in the NS section of your domain control panel.

It seems your domain registrar is hosting the NS for you. You can just add the A record from the panel to point to your server.

If you point it to your own Nameserver you will have to add all the records.

i recomend that you use your provider's NS as the primary and then your own server as the secondary.

210.1.115.3 (boggus ip for security reason) is my IP Address. I remove all the default configuration of the domain, I was able to successfullt, pointed the domain to my ipaddress (home server) www and ftp was okay. you may check it at www.leeph.net

How about the MX? did i do it right?

oh no........... i have reitten a long reply and added some links for you to read. but i'm not allowed to post urls untill i made 5 posts.
I'm sorry i have not read the rules properly, so all my typing goes out. Anyway i'll write what ever i can recall again


[maxt0r@chi ~]$ dig www[dot]leeph[dot]net

; <<>> DiG 9.2.5 <<>> www[dot]leeph[dot]net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 61418
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www[dot]leeph[dot]net. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www[dot]leeph[dot]net. 3600 IN CNAME leeph[dot]net.
leeph[dot]net. 3600 IN A 210.4.41.251

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
leeph[dot]net. 3600 IN NS NS3[dot]SECURESERVER[dot]net.
leeph[dot]net. 3600 IN NS NS4[dot]SECURESERVER[dot]net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
NS3[dot]SECURESERVER[dot]net. 70941 IN A 64.202.165.10
NS4[dot]SECURESERVER[dot]net. 70941 IN A 68.178.211.105

;; Query time: 823 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.50#53(192.168.1.50)
;; WHEN: Sat Mar 11 09:53:37 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 142


This is what is shown in my dig screen. It seems yo are hosting your NS under secureserver.com. You have not added any MX record. You have to add them.

consider reading hxxp www[dot]tek-tips[dot]com[slash]faqs.cfm?fid=4149

Thanks so much for the help! I will read through the link

As an aside, if you do the DNS correctly the bogus IP isn't necessary. If the DNS is right the name should resolve to the correct IP anyway.