[ubuntu-uk] Setting up mailserver

[Sean Miller]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Josh Holland
<jshholland at googlemail.com> wrote:
> it allows you to give two _different_ nameservers for your domain. As I
> only have the one, I named my own and used the 123reg site's. Does this
> mean I need another VPS?

Personally, as you have a single-point-of-failure anyway in the VPS, I
would say there's no need for a secondary DNS server, as what would be
its use when the VPS is down anyway?

So simply set up two nameservers ns1.joshh.co.uk and ns2.joshh.co.uk
both on the same IP, that of your VPS in the 123reg control panel.

Then configure bind to recognise these nameservers and set up the
virtual domain joshh.co.uk (and www, obviously) and all should be
well!

Sean