Setting Up Custom Nameservers | A Small Orange Support

<p>If you have a VPS or Dedicated Server, you likely want to use it for your DNS as well! We can help you with that. See the below instructions to learn how.<br />
<em>Note: editing your&nbsp;DNS zones can greatly change or break your website. BE CAREFUL.</em><br />
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Resellers and Shared account customers can still set up vanity nameservers using our cluster, with instructions down below this next section.</p>

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	<p>Log in to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.asmallorange.com/help/article/aso-log-into-whm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">WHM</a></p>
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	<p>Select Edit a DNS Zone in the DNS Functions menu on the left<br />
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	If you do not already have <a href="https://www.asmallorange.com/help/article/aso-access-your-cpanel-account" rel="noopener" target="_blank">a cPanel account</a> set up for the domains you want to use, please do that first so you can edit its zone file.<br />
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	<em>Note: you may see separate ns1 and ns2 zones int he Edit a DNS Zone selection box. We're going to replace those zones with records in the main zone, and those zones should be deleted after this is complete.</em></p>
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	<p>Click&nbsp;Edit</p>
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	<p>Add the following items, replacing italicized items with their proper values:</p>

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		<p><em>example.com.</em>&nbsp;|| 14400 || NS ||&nbsp;<em>ns1.example.com.<br />
		<strong>Note:</strong>&nbsp;don't forget the "." after ".com". This is important!</em></p>
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		<p><em>example.com.</em>&nbsp;|| 14400 || NS ||&nbsp;<em>ns2.example.com.</em></p>
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		<p>ns1 || 14400 || A ||&nbsp;<em>SERVER IP&nbsp;1</em></p>
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		<p>ns2 || 14400 || A ||&nbsp;<em>SERVER IP&nbsp;2</em></p>
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	<p>Click Save</p>
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	<p>Go to your domain registrar and <a href="https://www.asmallorange.com/help/article/aso-set-up-nameservers-at-registrar" rel="noopener" target="_blank">register the nameservers</a> to point to the server's two&nbsp;NS IP addresses and allow 24-72 hours for DNS to propagate</p>
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<p>That should be it!&nbsp;You received your server's nameserver IPs in your welcome email.</p>

<h2><a id="resellershared" name="resellershared"></a>For Reseller or Shared Server Accounts</h2>

<p>As a Reseller or general Shared Account user, you may want to set up nameservers with your own domain. It's never necessary, of course, as you can simply use ours:&nbsp;</p>

<p>ns1.asoshared.com<br />
ns2.asoshared.com</p>

<p>But if you want, you can also use your own. Follow these instructions to do so:</p>

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	<p><a href="https://www.asmallorange.com/help/article/aso-access-your-cpanel-account" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Log into cPanel</a><br />
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	Now we're going to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.asmallorange.com/help/article/aso-use-the-advanced-dns-zone-editor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">set up A records</a> so that your nameservers point to IPs.</p>
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	<p>Click Advanced Zone Editor, from the Domains section of cPanel</p>
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	<p>Select the domain of your new nameservers from the available dropdown list</p>
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	<p>In the Add a Record section, enter the following information:</p>

	<p>Type: A<br />
	Name: ns1<br />
	TTL: 14400<br />
	Address: 67.228.207.194</p>
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	<p>Click Add Record,&nbsp;and once it's done, enter the following for your second nameserver<br />
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	Type: A<br />
	Name: ns2<br />
	TTL: 14400<br />
	Address: 67.19.36.196</p>
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	<p>Click Add Record, and voila!<br />
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	Now all that needs to be done is to register those namservers at your registrar.</p>
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<em>See also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.asmallorange.com/help/article/aso-log-into-whm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Log Into WHM</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.asmallorange.com/help/article/aso-set-up-nameservers-at-registrar" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Set&nbsp;Up Nameservers at Registrar</a></em></p>