domain name system - Initial Windows 2008 VPS Setup

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I've just got my first VPS server,
yay! It'll primarilly be used for my own hosting (I'm a Web Application Developer) and
for friends & family.

It's just
been all setup fro me bare bones and I have RDP to jump on and play around. But not that
I've installed the basic roles, database engine, hMailServer (not fully configured yet)
etc, I've feeling slightly in over my head.

When
I signed up I provided these settings:
Host name: myhostname.co.nz />NS1 Prefix: barry
NS2 Prefix:
terry

I then received my two IP addresses
(say):
155.255.355.555
155.255.355.556

Confusion area
1:

I think the main confusion is
around DNS and how all that jazz works... I added the DNS role and follow some basic
instructions from here: href="http://www.mywebhostingblog.net/window-hosting/install-configure-windows-dns-service/"
rel="nofollow noreferrer">Install & Configure Windows DNS
Service

Was I correct in
following that? Is there a better tutorial out
there?

Note I replaced details in the tutorial
with the settings above. So the DNS Manager looks something
like:

(same as parent folder) Start
            of Authority (SOA) [5], barry.myhostname.co.nz., info.myhostname.co.nz.
(same
            as parent folder) Name Server (NZ) barry.myhostname.co.nz.
(same as parent
            folder) Name Server (NZ) terry.myhostname.co.nz.
(same as parent folder) Host
            (A) 155.255.355.555.

(same as parent folder) Mail Exchanger (MX)
            [10] mail.myhostname.co.nz.
ftp Alias (CNAME) myhostname.co.nz.
mail
            Host (A) 155.255.355.556.
www Alias (CNAME)
            myhostname.co.nz.

Does that look
right?

Would I basically do the same for each
domain that I want to host on the
VPS?

Confusion area
2:

What do I now do with my
domain registrar entries for myhostname.co.nz? It's still pointing at my old shared
hosting account...

Then for other sites I want
hosted, I guess that the named servers will be barry.myhostname.co.nz &
terry.myhostname.co.nz.

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If
you need more info just ask. Sorry if the question is rather open and/or doesn't make
too much sense but as I say I'm feeling slightly in over my head (first time in a while!
;-). Any help would be
appreciated.

Thanks,
Charles

Answer

That tutorial is pretty correct, although personally I wouldn't have created
the records in the text file first, I would have used the GUI, but I guess thats up to
personal preference. So yes when you add more domains you will need to create a new zone
for that domain.

As for question2, as you are
hosting your own domain you need to setup name server records and then change this at
your registrar. So I assume from following the tutorial you already have DNS records for
ns1.hyhostname.co.nz and ns2.hyhostname.co.nz, or what ever your name servers are, with
two separate IP's. You need need to go to the configuration site of your registrar, in
here you should have an option to set-up name servers, where you will enter the names of
your name servers, and then because they are on the same domain, it will ask you for the
IP of them too. Once that's done, your server will now be used for DNS. Each registrars
site is different so can't really tell you exactly how to do that without knowing who it
is.

When it comes to adding more domains, you
can either go through the same process again at the registrar, or alternatively get them
to change their name servers to the ones we just setup, this is a bit quicker as it
won't ask for the IP, as they are on a seperate
domain.

Looking at your zone you've added to the
question, it looks good aside from the name servers, you have setup nameserver records
for the two ns records, but you need to create A records for each of these name servers
that map the name to an IP, as you have 2 IP's, you should use 1 IP for each nameserver
A record.