[Myatu]

You should be able to use OVH's dns, without the need to run your own. Though, if you are running a combination of both, that is your own AND OVH, then make sure one of them is setup as a slave, otherwise your DNS info will be discarded/ignored depending on which one answers first.

[Neil]

Hi

You can use OVH's DNS Servers, if you login, click on 'More Services', click on Order a new domain or a domain transfer, then enter the domain name and select add to dns.

Then just change the nameservers to the ones applied you then have full access to the DNS Zone and SPF settings.

[khards]

Ok, so the GLUE registry did not work.

Today I am trying this, logged into the dedicated server control panel and setup a secondary DNS server.

Went into the domain name in the control panel and then clicked

Domains & DNS > Modify

changed to:
ns.kwiksurveys.com 188.165.230.88
sdns2.ovh.net

I am surprised that you can't use OVH for the primary name server and supply the txt settings for SPF.

I will keep my fingers crossed that this works. Not sure if I need to delete the GLUE settings?

[khards]

Since I don't want to run the DNS server myself:

Does anyone know if I can use OVH DNS servers and configure the SPF record there?

If so what do I put into the GLUE registry?

If I can do this then how do I add the TXT entry?

Regards.

[khards]

Thanks for the reply Freshwire! I just transfered my domain to OVH yesterday.

I have been into OVH Manager and added the following to the GLUE registry

ns.kwiksurveys.com
188.165.230.88

I will keep my fingers crossed that my DNS server is working and going to be used to lookup the DNS information.

[freshwire]

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
kwiksurveys.com. 172800 IN NS ns.stratoserver.net.
kwiksurveys.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.stratoserver.net.

You need to contact your domain registrar and modify the name servers. You can create new name servers (ns.kwiksurverys.com or something) and specify the IP addresses of these at the registrar. You will need 2 (but they can be the same IP/machine if you have nothing else).

Once this is complete, all external DNS lookups will use your server to resolve the domain.

Your server appears to be responding correctly to DNS lookup requests so should work correctly once the transfer is complete.

;; ANSWER SECTION:
kwiksurveys.com. 86400 IN MX 10 mail.kwiksurveys.com.
kwiksurveys.com. 86400 IN TXT "v=spf1 +a +mx -all"
kwiksurveys.com. 86400 IN SOA ns.kwiksurveys.com. mail.pennyfalls.com. 1300999586 10800 3600 604800 10800
kwiksurveys.com. 86400 IN NS ns.kwiksurveys.com.
kwiksurveys.com. 86400 IN A 188.165.230.88

Hopefully this makes sense to you. I am rather tired at this time

[khards]

I have just looked in Domains & DNS and found that the DNS servers listed are my old hosts:

ns2.stratoserver.net -
ns.stratoserver.net -

Since I have transfered this domain name in the last 24 hours will this automatically update? Could this be the problem?

[khards]

The following are run from my machine so I guess they appear ok on my machine but are not recognised by the outside world

[root@kwiksurveys ~]# dig -t txt kwiksurveys.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 <<>> -t txt kwiksurveys.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 44739
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;kwiksurveys.com.               IN      TXT

;; ANSWER SECTION:
kwiksurveys.com.        86400   IN      TXT     "v=spf1 +a +mx -all"

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
kwiksurveys.com.        86400   IN      NS      ns.kwiksurveys.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns.kwiksurveys.com.     86400   IN      A       188.165.230.88

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Apr  2 23:52:29 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 97

[root@kwiksurveys ~]# host -t txt kwiksurveys.com
kwiksurveys.com descriptive text "v=spf1 +a +mx -all"

[khards]

Hello,

Can anyone tell me how to setup SPF using the manager? With my last host you simply checked the SPF box in the DNS settings area. I can't workout how to access DNS zones or how to create one if I need.
I click create DNS zone and I get no options under "Select a hosting : " with no options. Do I need to do this to get access to "DNS zone" so that I can add a txt or SPF record? If not how can i add a txt record?

Also I have setup a TXT record in plesk. I believe that the settings in plesk do not do anything and the DNS settings are configured at OVH is that true, I am a little confused about this.

Thanks for any help I am getting desperate here.