Hi i'm running a Centos 5.4 server with Virtualmin as my cpanel.

I have a domain name that i bought on godaddy and i am having trouble figuring out how to use bind to "bind" the godaddy domain to my server. The real thing is i honestly have no idea how to do this part of server administration. I don't know how to create a nameserver so i can point my godaddy domain to my server. Most of the tutorials i saw setup bind with the plugin of example.com in many of there config files and i tried that with my godaddy domain and it didnt really do anything. If anyone has any idea of what im talking about an what im asking i would be so grateful for your help. :-) i've been struggling with this for a while and i still havn't figured out this bind dns server setup haha.

First you have to set up one, or preferably more, DNS servers to resolve your domain name. Then you point your domain name (in Godaddy) to your authoritative name server(s).

It's probably worth saying that the benefits of running your own name server are limited, and if the name server goes down for any reason you'll lose access to your domain after the various caches run out.

Hi -

Bakdong replied before I got a chance. We're both thinking along similar lines. Here are my suggestions:

1) It sounds like you registered your domain name with Godaddy, and your server(s) are are completely elsewhere.

I'm guessing you probably also have at least one public static IP address for your server(s). I'm also guessing maybe this server is a VPS, and your VPS provider also gave you the static IP.

2) In that case, all you need to do to start "publishing" your web server to the world is just create a new "A" record on Godaddy.

EXAMPLE: "www.mycooldomain.net"
<= Just create an "A" record for "mycooldomain.net", and the IP address, on Godaddy. Done! Finished!

3) Let's say you want to send and receive e-mail on your server, too.
Easy: just create an "MX" record on Godaddy.

4) OK, let's say you want to set up TWO web servers: one for a blog, and the other for an on-line photo album. Just create two more "A" records: one for "blog.mycooldomain.net", the other for "photos.mycooldomain.net". Then create two "virtual servers" in Apache: one for "blog" (with one set of permissions, and one DocumentRoot), and the other for "photos" (with a different set of permissions, and a different DocumentRoot).

In other words, you DON'T necessarily need a DNS server on your (VPS?) server at all: let Godaddy do all the DNS stuff (on their system), and then you do the rest (on your system).

Make sense?

Here are some links to using Godaddy's DNS:

http://help.godaddy.com/article/681
http://help.godaddy.com/topic/163

'Hope that helps .. PSM

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I would recommend you use PowerDNS with a web interface and MySQL backend. Especially if you intend to add more domains to your server. Administration is easy and you don't have to fret about making syntactic errors. I wrote a small article on my journey from bare metal to a trimmed web server that includes a few notes on PowerDNS here: How to have a cheap dedicated web server.