Hi folks! I’m a total newbie with so mysterious DNS settings, and I just trying to setup my custom nameservers like that - ns1.mydomain.com. The first thing I did - I read a tutorial here on DO. Then another tutorial. But anyway I can’t understand where and which records I must add exactly. For example:
- In my domain registrar - which records I must add exactly?
- In my DO account - which records I must add exactly?
Any help will be much appreciated!!!
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If you’re not very familiar with how DNS works, I’d avoid using vanity or branded nameservers and just using ns{1,2,3}.digitalocean.com as the name servers you’ve delegated authority to.
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