I am just learning about DNS, so please bear with me and don't hesitate to correct me.
I own my domain example.com --- I have created two linux boxes that I am designating ns1
and ns2
.example.com
. And lets say I have two web boxes. web1
and web2
. And I have 100 domains out there .. Some hosted on web1
and some on web2
-- This is why I am setting up my own DNS servers, as to give all my clients nsx.example.com
no matter how many web servers I have I don't have to give some one IP address, and some another IP address.
My problem is understanding how to point example.com
from my registrar to my physical IP addresses for ns1
and ns2
. From my understanding, DNS runs on port 53, so a A record
will not work. However a CNAME
points an alias to a FQDN
.
On the registrar level (Which happens to be Godaddy), how do I point ns1
and ns2
.example.com
to my physical servers, so that I can give my clients those two Nameservers
and not hand them individual IP addresses based on the server they are hosted on?