I have a VPS server that I host several sites on. One of the domain names I use for a site hosted on the VPS is registered through a different company.
The site was working fine until this morning when it randomly went down.
After hours of talking to my hosting service support, they decided that the problem was I did not have an A record for NS1
and NS2
pointing to my name server's ip addresses and they claimed the absence of those A records
are why the site went down.
I have never heard of needing an A record
for NS1
and NS2
before.
I am confused as to why the site would work just fine without the A records
and then suddenly go down when no DNS changes were previously made.
Could someone explain this to me?
A
records forNS1
andNS2
then how are they expected to resolve? Presumably you are specifying the same nameservers on your other domains?