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I'm hosting a few clients' websites on a Media Temple VPS, but I'm thinking of moving to another provider. When I originally set up their sites I had each client point their domain names to MT's nameservers. So now, if I switch, I'll have to contact them and get them to point their domains somewhere else.

My question is whether I could have avoided this by setting up a CNAME record for one of my domains (like ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com) and pointed those to MT's name servers. So that if I decided to switch I could just make a change on my end and not have to bother them? Will something like that work? Or is there another way?

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Yes, this is possible but would require to lookup the ip of the CNAME record, in some cases you can directly use an A record which points to the correct ip.

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  • Great. Let me see if I understand this. All I have to do is lookup the ip of media temple's nameservers, then create an A record for ns1.mydomain.com and point it to that ip. Then when I need to change it, I simply change the ip on that A record to the ip of the new nameserver?
    – owise1
    Oct 19, 2010 at 15:30
  • yes, that is correct.
    – Mark
    Oct 20, 2010 at 19:11
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That is not a full solution as you still need the registrar to setup the actual glue records for the domain

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  • I'm not sure what a glue record is. Is the process I described above correct? Or am I missing something. Thanks.
    – owise1
    Oct 19, 2010 at 15:31
  • Even if you had used CNAME's you still need to change the records in the registry if you change the name servers ip addresses.
    – topdog
    Oct 19, 2010 at 16:02

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