In this scenario, I am the Dummy.
Website is on Server A, owned by Account A.
Transferred website files to Server B, owned by Account B.
DNS Records are listed in dashboard for Account A.
Cannot create a DNS record for the new IP in the dashboard for Account B.
Need to do that.
Do I delete the DNS records in the dashboard for Account A and then create new DNS records in the dashboard for Account B?
Or do I just change the IP address in the DNS records under Account A?
DNS for Dummies
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Pyrrho
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DNS for Dummies
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Re: DNS for Dummies
That's a fun way to say that you merely lack a certain piece of information.
We all know you are no dummy.
Reminds me of a chat I had with a rookie programmer.
He said, "Sometimes I feel like I don't know everything I should know to do my job."
I said, "And that feeling will never go away. There will always be something you don't know. But as long as you can learn what you need, you'll be fine."
For the record, I don't know the answer to your question. But I'm already a member of the Dummies Club.
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Pyrrho
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Re: DNS for Dummies
In the Nodeworx portion of Account B management, there are DNS records which use different nameservers than in Account A.
Tried using those nameservers at the domain registrar which promptly flagged them as invalid.
Tech support chat was useless. "Just change the IP in the DNS records." Yeah, well...those records are under Account A. I need to set them up under Account B. Deleted the records under Account A. System would not allow me to create new records under Account B. The domain is manageable under Account A but not under Account B.
I haz a tired. I am punting it to the hosting service's tech support monkeys.
Tried using those nameservers at the domain registrar which promptly flagged them as invalid.
Tech support chat was useless. "Just change the IP in the DNS records." Yeah, well...those records are under Account A. I need to set them up under Account B. Deleted the records under Account A. System would not allow me to create new records under Account B. The domain is manageable under Account A but not under Account B.
I haz a tired. I am punting it to the hosting service's tech support monkeys.
The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
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Pyrrho
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Re: DNS for Dummies
In other news I was able to successfully knock the client's website offline for half an hour.
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Re: DNS for Dummies
"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight! Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little bit more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor. Then, he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on earth, and then he herded them onto a boat, and then he beat the crap out of every single one. And from that day forward any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it's called a zoo! (Beat) Unless it's a farm!"
--Soldier, TF2
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Pyrrho
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Re: DNS for Dummies
So what I need to do is to go ahead and set up glue records in the name registrar's domain management settings, and point to the IP address for the new host server. The website domain then has to be set to use the name servers in Account B. The domain itself uses a different IP. If we can go ahead and get that done tonight that'd be great.
The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.