Hello, after reading
- How To Point to DigitalOcean Nameservers From Common Domain Registrars
- How does DO verify domain ownership?
- How do I map subdomain from Godaddy to DO Droplet?
- How do you point a subdomain to DigitalOcean without using or the original domain or changing nameservers?
I still have difficulties understanding the domain lookup routing
I have domain mysweetdomain.love registered at the domain registrars MyRegistrarsBuddy and would like to add a forum using the discourse droplet and shall be accisble by the subdomain discourse.mysweetdomain.love
Now I have to options that discourse.mysweetdomain.love can be reached by all the nerds around the world.
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use DigitalOcean nameservers, what can be changed in the DNS settings area of my domain registrars
This means to tell myMyRegistrarsBuddyto askns1.digitalocean.comto tell him where to find the asset (app) associated to the domain name.
That means if a user typesdiscourse.mysweetdomain.lovehis DNS provider (most likely his internet service provider, IPS) will ask other nameservers (DNS server provider) who is the owner ofmysweetdomain.love, ending up at nameserver ofMyRegistrarsBuddy. The IPS will ask him wherediscourse.mysweetdomain.loveis located. This in turn causes myMyRegistrarsBuddyto ask DigitalOcean nameservers where the droplet is located, who in turn responses with its IP address -
add in A record pointing to the IP address of the droplet This causes that my
MyRegistrarsBuddyknows exactly where the droplet is located. That means if a user typesdiscourse.mysweetdomain.lovehis DNS provider (his IPS) will ask other nameservers who is the owner ofmysweetdomain.love, ending up at nameserver ofMyRegistrarsBuddy. The IPS will ask him wherediscourse.mysweetdomain.loveis located. As I added an A record pointing to the IP address of the droplet, the nameserver ofMyRegistrarsBuddyresponses with the correct IP address.
What I still don’t understand, why NS records (ns1.digitalocean.com, ns2.digitalocean.com, ns3.digitalocean.com) are added automatically do the DNS records in the domain management of my project?
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Hi StefanMueller83,
I’m not sure I fully understand your last question but let me try and clarify your situation and what would be best in my opinion.
Changing your nameservers
If you change your nameservers to
You will control your DNS from Digital Ocean. This means, you’ll manage all your records like A, MX, CNAME etc from DO.
Pointing only the A record of the subdomain
Now, this process will be simpler now and with few steps but might create some confusion in your end after some time.
Let me clarify, it’s easier to just change your A record of discourse.mysweetdomain.love to point to your new droplet. Changing the A record would ensure your subdomain loading from your droplet. That’s it, you would be ready to go.
The negative part would be everytime you need to do a DNS change, you’ll need to login to your MyRegistrarsBuddy account and manage the records from there.
In your situation, I would suggest the second option. Once you have a wider knowledge of how DNS work, it would be a peace of cake to just change your NS
Let me know if this answer was actually helpful to your situation.
it looks that you understood 1 and 2 and they are right, aren’t they?
The negative part would be everytime you need to do a DNS change, you’ll need to login to your MyRegistrarsBuddy account and manage the records from there.
I that is well descriped, easy to understand :)
But why shall I add all three servers, there could be reason I need other nameservers involved as well in the settings of my MyRegistrarsBuddy . Why not just adding ns1.digitalocean.com and ns2.digitalocean.com? (question 4.)
Question three:
see picutre below, why are the NSs are added?
Hello,
yes both your points are correct.
Adding ns1/ns2.digitalocean.com as you nameservers will actually force you to manage your DNS for Digital Ocean. This won’t be a bad idea as you’ll have your droplets configured here as well.
As for your Question number 3. The NS are actually added by default. A domain name, can’t have proper DNS without it having available NS.
Kind regards, Kalin D.
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