VPSLink DNS

Contents 1 NAMESERVERS: 2 Using the VPSLink DNS Manager 2.1 Step 1 2.2 Step 2 2.3 Step 3 2.4 Step 4 2.5 Tip 3 Reverse DNS

NAMESERVERS:

Standard NS
ns1.vpslink.com
ns2.vpslink.com

Using the VPSLink DNS Manager

Step 1

Select Manage DNS from the user control panel at https://my.vpslink.com/

Step 2

Enter your domain name into the 'Zone' field. You can leave the rest of the fields set to their default or you can change them to suit your needs. The settings provided should be fine for most websites. Click 'Create Zone'. Be sure not to add a dot at the end of the new domain name here or you'll get an error like this: "An error in your domain name 'yourdomain.com.' was detected...no null components allowed.".

Step 3

After the zone is created, select 'View Zone' and you'll be presented with a very light template for your new zone. From here you need to enter the IP address of your server as an 'A(ddress)' record (in this example, 123.123.123.123) and select 'Edit Record' to save the changes. Once you have the IP under the 'A' record, the 'CNAME' wildcard for *.yourdomain.com. takes care of 'www', 'ftp', etc., pointing them all to the A record for yourdomain.com. From here you can delete, edit, and create new records to your heart's content.

Step 4

After you are finished with the aboves steps, make sure to log into your domain's registrar (i.e. GoDaddy, DirectNIC, etc.) and set your domain nameservers to ns1.vpslink.com and ns2.vpslink.com. Please note that it make take several hours up to several days, depending on who your domain registrar is to repoint your DNS servers. Usually it's less than 24 hours. Please make sure ALL of the DNS entries for your domains are in VPSLink DNS before you switch over DNS servers.

If your registrar does not like ns1.vpslink.com and ns2.vpslink.com for any reason, try using ns1.dnscloud.com and ns2.dnscloud.com. Please note that messages sent to vpslink from registrars regarding invalid setup of zones on ns1.vpslink.com and ns2.vpslink.com will not receive a response. Please use your contact address when dealing with your registrar.

Tip

If you want to test your DNS entries before changing your domain's DNS servers to VPSLink, you can run "dig hostname.domain.com @ns1.vpslink.com" on your VPS account or any other shell account with "dig" installed to see if your DNS record shows up.

Reverse DNS

You can enable reverse DNS for your domain by opening a support ticket as follows.

Login to https://www.vpslink.com/support/myaccount/login.php.

Select Reverse DNS Request.

Now enter your domain name next to the IP Address listed above. This will take approx 24-48 hours as its a manually done by VPS staff.