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How do I know what to set my nameservers to on my domain to point it to my VPS?

I got it from myhosting.com. I added the account using WHM. What do I set as my domain's nameservers?

EDIT: I know the TTL is rather high as per default so I shouldn't expect to see changes, but after flushing my DNS resolver cache the site simply does not load.

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What are the current settings? Did you buy the domain? Care to share the domain name? – Bart De Vos Aug 22 '11 at 23:10
@TiZon I purchased the domain seperately, here's the intodns info page, with the nameservers as best as I could figure out: intodns.com/forumify.com But, those nameservers resolve to a different IP than the IP address of my VPS... – Cyclone Aug 22 '11 at 23:13
To whoever downvoted: Please leave a comment so I can better improve the question. – Cyclone Aug 22 '11 at 23:44
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I'd be more worried about the three close votes than the downvote. – womble Aug 23 '11 at 1:01
this probably belongs on webmasters, but if you dont know what to do, i suggest a crash course in dns, but glue records for the nameservers come to mind if you want your vps to handle the domain management – anthonysomerset Aug 23 '11 at 7:10
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Something like this should do the trick:

forumify.com.   A   1.2.3.4 
mail            A   1.2.3.4         
www             A   1.2.3.4     
forumify.com.   NS  ns1.myhosting.com.  
forumify.com.   NS  ns2.myhosting.com.  
mail            MX  10  
forumify.com.   TXT "v=spf1 a mx ip4:1.2.3.4 ~all"

1.2.3.4 = VPS IP
The TTL is set to 48 hours, so you are in for a big wait...

To catch all subdomains you could add this line:

*.forumify.com. A   1.2.3.4
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Will that work for any and all subdomains of Forumify.com? – Cyclone Aug 22 '11 at 23:28
@Cyclone: You can add a wildcard for this. I'll edit my answer above. – Bart De Vos Aug 22 '11 at 23:30
i.imgur.com/ceT7x.png – Cyclone Aug 22 '11 at 23:33
@:Ask your provider how he wants you to do wildcards then :-) – Bart De Vos Aug 23 '11 at 6:05
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You can use your provider's nameservers ns/ns1/ns2.myhosting.com and can add your domain from their control panel to manage the DNS. I could find a bunch of kb articles, demos & video tutorials in their site. Why don't you check that first.? They also have 24x7 support, which you can utilize also :).

However, since you have WHM access, I would suggest,

  1. Register your private nameservers ns1/ns2.forumify.com at your registrar with your VPS IPs.
  2. Ask your host to configure these nameservers in your server.

By this way, your server will be independent of myhosting NSs and DNS can be directly managed inside WHM/cPanel.

For kbs & tutorials,

http://myhosting.com/kb/Main_Page

http://myhosting.com/vps-guide/

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