The tutorial: step 3

In this step we will look at how to set up your zone working properly on our servers.

Setting up NS records

The recommended way to configure your zone is to add NS records in your zone for both our name servers. You can do this by adding something like:

    example.com.     IN NS ns1.soliddns.net.
    example.com.     IN NS ns2.soliddns.net.

Please note the essential trailing dots. Also, you keep the NS record for the master, which you run, so there should be a minimum of three NS records once you are done.

Cloaking our server names

You can make it harder for others to see that you are using Solid DNS, by preventing our server names to show in your zone. However, this means a lot more work for you in case the IP addresses of our servers change.
We strongly recommend not to do this.

If you are very sure you want to do this, you will have to build something like this:

    example.com.     IN NS   ns1.example.com.
    example.com.     IN NS   ns2.example.com.
    example.com.     IN NS   ns3.example.com.
    ns1.example.com. IN A    [IP of your DNS server]
    ns2.example.com. IN A    97.107.140.116
    ns2.example.com. IN AAAA 2001:470:1f07:2ae::1
    ns3.example.com. IN A    79.170.89.214
    ns3.example.com. IN AAAA 2a02:348:37:1dd6::1

Once again, we strongly recommend not to do this, due to increased maintenance for you. Also, do not use CNAME records pointing to our name servers to cloak our server names.

Informing the registrar

In case of a domain name, you will have to inform the registrar of the changes. Take all NS records in your zone, and enter all servers in their interface for setting the name servers.

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