ip question

[muks]

I'm a newbie at this (vps) but I'm really interested in getting one as soon as powervps accepts orders again. But in the meantime I've been reading a lot but I guess nothing beats actually doing it myself.

Anyway, the Directadmin Power-1 plan included 2 IP's and correct me if I'm wrong but aren't these two ip's used for setting up nameservers. So what IP would one use for his sites.

Sorry if this is a stupid question. :confused:

[BornOnline]

You will use those for your nameservers and one for your site/shared sites and you can use the other to dedicate to another site if you want.

[Hvu]

IPs for named and hosting can be shared (:

[Robert]

IPs used for nameservers can be used for other things (being a dedicated IP for SSL, shared server IP, etc). It just can't have MULTIPLE NAMESERVERS on the same IP. So you can't point two different NS to the same IP.

By default, the first IP will be your shared IP. You can put as many IPs as you like on it. Generally most people use the 2nd for any site they need to have a dedicated IP for. You can also order additional IPs if needed as well. Just drop a note to support for them. They're sold in blocks of 4 for $4 a month or if you need fewer, we can give them to you if you pay for them by the year (1 for $12, 2 for $24, 3 for $36). We just don't like doing $1 invoices. In the end, it costs more dealing with the invoices that cost so little what we actually make from it. LOL

[Zaf]

Rob, I guess nameserver ips are shareable from WHM ---> Tweak Settings.

[Robert]

Ya don't want to share nameserver IPs however... or else when you do lookups on that nameserver (say at dnsstuff), it will complain about lame or ghost nameservers. :)

It's *technically* possible, but I recommend against it as some ISPs and some countries adhere to standards pretty closely and this could make any sites on those nameservers not work correctly.

[Zaf]

I'm using it for a few domains on another server, dont see any problems yet. Sending a PM with dnsreport results of 2 domains

[Zaf]

I just read a bit more on this and have found even 40-50 name servers hanging on a single ip.

One may go to http://www.internic.net/whois.html (Select the option Name Server) and put the ip address of any nameserver of some of the top shared/reseller hosting companies.

[elix]

zaf- Rob was referring to having two nameservers for a single domain each pointing to the same IP.

so:

ns1 = 1.2.3.4
ns2 = 1.2.3.4

as opposed to:

ns1 = 1.2.3.4
ns2 = 1.2.3.5

[Zaf]

Sorry misunderstood the posts completely then.