sitbon

I was previously using DynDNS to manage my domain, and I just added the Surpass name servers to the delegation list in my domain account. My question is this: which one takes priority? I want to use DynDNS to give CNAME's to some of my other servers elsewhere... is this going to work? Right now I have DynDNS pointing to the initial IP I was given for CPanel access, for the TLD name. Thanks!

patrickb

I am not quite sure what you are attempting to do here. CNAMEs cannot have any new properties in the zone file. They are nothing more than an alias of an already defined entry.

If you are attempting to run multiple copies of your website and distribute the traffic among them equally (load balancing) it is possible to do, but I doubt that DynDNS would be able to provide that. Now for redundancy in case one site is down, this would work well. The client would try the first A record for your domain, and if that ip address didn't work, it would try the second and go down the line.

If you are trying to do something like have your webservices running here at surpass, and maybe your mail servers with another host, this is possible. Its not done through CNAME records, but it is very doable.

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sitbon

My bad - I didn't mean CNAME - I am basically talking about subdomains. I have xyz.net with surpass, and I want to use DynDNS to point abc.xyz.net to a completely different server... am I making more sense now?

patrickb

Yes, and yes, you can more than likely do this through DynDNS.

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