I have a good understanding of DNS but this is my first time using Amazon for domain registration.
I registered a domain using Route 53 and changed the NS records to match the ones in the hosted zone file I created for the domain name. Then I created an A record pointing to the IP address of my droplet on Digital Ocean.
I'm sure I'm missing something, but do I need to set up DNS on Digital Ocean? Wouldn't that negate the benefits of using Route 53 for DNS?
I've been using Digital Ocean and a "traditional" domain name registrar for a long time now and never had a problem letting DO handle the DNS - using amazon as the registrar and Route53 as the DNS is throwing me off.
I followed Amazons instructions for setting up route 53 with a third-party registrar, but when I follow the same directions using them as a registrar, the domain name is not resolving. No response on ping.
When I try to set the name servers to digital ocean, it fails. Any help would be much appreciated.
In this case, AWS is acting both as your registrar and your DNS host. Your NS records should be set to those shown on the Route 53 Hosted Zone page. The NS record varies for each domain name, but it will be something like ns-384.awsdns-48.com.
You do not need to configure DNS in Digital Ocean, because Route 53 is acting as your DNS host.
You'll need to get the IP address of your DO droplet, and create a DNS record in Route 53. For example, you might want to create an A record for www.example.com which points to the IP of your droplet.
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I've got a website hosted on elastic beanstalk and a .nz domain on www.sitehost.com.
I need to route the domain to the website. All the documentation I'm seeing tells me to transfer the domain to Route 53... but you can't use .nz domains with Route 53.
I've had a look at setting up DNS records on my current domain host but I'm not 100% which records/information need to be added. Is it as simple as adding DNS records? Or can you only route elastic beanstalk websites through Route 53 and do I need to take my website off AWS and host somewhere else??
Appreciate any advice!
Cheers,
Daniel.
Is it as simple as adding DNS records?
Depends on the capabilities given to you by sitehost and what is your domain. If you want to point subdomain (e.g. www.mysite.nz) to EB, just use CNAME record. If you want to point root domain (e.g mysite.nz) CNAME can't be used, and you may need to contact sitehost if they have any special/custom records for root domains.
Or can you only route elastic beanstalk websites through Route 53 and do I need to take my website off AWS and host somewhere else??
You can host it on AWS. But if the sitehost does not allow you to create CNAME or other records, then you can setup Route53 as your DNS service. This is different then migrating a domain. Your domain is still in sitehost, but all its records are managed by R53. This requires you to setup NS records in sitehost. But again, it depends if sitehost allows you to do it.
I am confused on the process of how to point a subdomain of an EC2 instance which is being run behind an ALB. The Target Group has port 80 which will then Redirect traffic to 443 and then a second Target Group which has the SSL certificate for 443. I have read online that I would need to create a hosted zone in Route 53 of the subdomain (e.g. apples.ilovefruits.org) and setup an ALIAS of the ALB. My domain and subdomains are hosted on Bluehost. The error I receive on the website to enter is a "403 Forbidden":
Would appreciate any help on this to get this to work.
UPDATE:
Should I replace the NS records of Route 53 with Bluehosts NS records?
I have read online that I would need to create a hosted zone in Route 53 of the subdomain (e.g. apples.ilovefruits.org) and setup an ALIAS of the ALB.
That's not true. You can delegate a subdomain and create an ALIAS record in Route 53, or you can create a CNAME record within your current dns provider.
An ALIAS record is an A record that will automatically resolve to an IP for the ALB without an intermediate CNAME lookup. This is great, but by no means necessary. An ALIAS record is a Route53-specific integration to other AWS resources.
Delegating a subdomain to route53 - at the cost of $0.50 a month plus a few cents per millions of requests - makes it more convenient to create with AWS dns records within that subdomain. It's especially useful if you're creating a lot of dns records that point to things in AWS. Creating records in your current DNS provider by hand is often an adequate solution until you're creating more than a few.
A route53 subdomain is also convenient if you're going to use ACM, amazon's cert issuing service. These certs are free, secure, and - if you use DNS validation - can renew automatically. If the domain of the certificate is in route53, the aws console for ACM will have a button to automatically add the validation record - convenient, right? But you can create the same record in any DNS provider, so again, until you're doing it a few times a week, the manual approach isn't so bad.
If you were to create a CNAME, do so in your current dns provider. Create a CNAME record whose name is your desired DNS name, and the value value is the ALB's dns name provided in the ALB details in the web console. This functions fine.
If you did want to delegate the domain, start by choosing the subdomain and creating its zone in Route 53. Take note of the 4 nameservers under the NS record there. These servers are ready to respond to requests for the subdomain, but nobody's going to ask them until you add these servers to your current dns provider as NS records for the subdomain. Then, public queries for the subdomain will be referred (or "delegated") to the amazon servers.
UPDATE: Should I replace the NS records of Route 53 with Bluehosts NS records?
No, The NS records for the zone in Route 53 are ready to serve queries for your zone, but that record is not what points any queries to those servers. The record that delegates the subdomain is in the parent zone (eg ilovefruits.org). Changing that NS record essentially does nothing. Above, we're *adding new * NS records for the subdomain, not changing anything that already exists for the parent domain.
If you're curious, the same is true of ilovefruits.org itself. In that case, the domain registrar also provides NS records for ilovefruits within the .org domain. As the domain registrant, you get to choose which servers these are. You could migrate your dns to amazon by changing these settings with your registrar. But strange as it may seem, even then, the NS records for the domain within that zone aren't being consulted for most dns lookups. DNS happens from the top level out, so .org is the domain that points to ilovefruits.org; it cannot, of course, point to itself!
Don't change the NS records of the root of your dns zone unless you're sure you know what you're doing. They aren't part of normal dns lookups and will be set appropriately by the dns provider, even if your domain hasn't delegated any dns queries to them.
The error I receive on the website to enter is a "403 Forbidden":
This has nothing to do with DNS and you should diagnose it separately.
I have purchased a domain name through ROUTE 53.
2) I have created a EC2 instance and put my web application inside it that is supposed to be hosted.
3) I have configured the Gunicorn and nginx as my WSGI and web server.
How to use the purchased domain name to integrate with my application to see over the internet. I have seen many documents post on stackoverflow, and youtube videos. But I am not able to get the clear picture of what am suppose to do next.
I get that once the domain is registered I have 4 ns records generated inside the ROUTE 53. But where to use them? how to configure them.
It be helpful if somebody can give me exact steps to perform the tasks.
Thank you,
Route53 is similar to other DNS servers with extra features, in your case, you will need to assign your ec2 instance a public IP address and to be safe an Elastic IP to avoid IP change on reboot, then you need to grab this public IP and assign it to your domain root A record and www CNAME record to point to that domain
I get that once the domain is registered I have 4 ns records generated
inside the ROUTE 53. But where to use them? how to configure them.
Normally it's not required but it's helpful to control your DNS configuration from route 53 instead of the DNS registrar.
Create Hosted zone in route 53, for example if your domain name is example.com then create Hosted zone in route with name example.com, it will generate name server record.
Open newly created hosted zone and copy Name server (NS) record and replace the NS record in your DNS setting.
When you create a hosted zone, Route 53 automatically creates a name server (NS) record and a start of authority (SOA) record for the zone. The NS record identifies the four name servers that Route 53 associated with your hosted zone. To make Route 53 the DNS service for your domain, you update the registration for the domain to use these four name servers.
Add these record in DNS Name server, for example the below one is used for Godaddy
migrating-a-domain-to-amazon-route53
I am following Heroku's instructions on how to get my AWS domain name on Route 53 to point to my Heroku app. The end of the instructions say:
"Go back to the Hosted Zones list and select your new hosted zone. There is a pre-populated Delegation Set section in the sidebar. These are the nameservers you need to provide your domain registrar for Route 53 to resolve your app domain."
I assume that the nameservers they are referring to are the four web addresses with "awsdns" in their name with type NS. My question is, who is my domain registrar and how do I provide these name servers to them? I originally bought this domain through GoDaddy before transferring it to AWS. Is GoDaddy my domain registrar? How do I determine this? Thank you.
Did you transfer the domain to AWS, or did you simply create a hosted zone for the domain name? If you transferred the domain to AWS, which it doesn't sound like you did, the nameservers are configured by Route 53 and are set. It sounds like you need to go to the Domain Settings via the GoDaddy console and set the AWS nameservers as your nameservers for your GoDaddy domain.
I have created a Route 53 hosted zone which contains a SOA, an NS record and a A record.
The A record points to the web instance I have hosted on AWS.
On the registrar what do I need to use to get the domain to use Amazon Route 53, is it just Nameservers? Or do I need an A record or a CNAME?
Which Nameservers should I use the SO or the NS record?
Thanks
Just name server entries, here is AWS documentation on Migrating DNS Service for an Existing Domain to Amazon Route 53.
Which name servers? Here are steps on how/where to get them and add them in 3rd party server.
Step 5: Update Your Registrar's Name Servers
Step2: In the Amazon Route 53 console, get the name servers for your Amazon
Route 53 hosted zone:
Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon Route 53
console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/.
In the navigation pane, click Hosted Zones.
On the Hosted Zones page, choose the radio button (not the name) for
the hosted zone.
In the right pane, make note of the four servers listed for Name
Servers.
Alternatively, you can use the GetHostedZone action. For more
information, see GetHostedZone in the Amazon Route 53 API Reference.
Step3: Using the method provided by the registrar for the domain, replace the
name servers in the registrar's NS records with the four Amazon Route
53 name servers that you got in step 2.
Note Some registrars only allow you to specify name servers using IP
addresses; they don't allow you to specify fully qualified domain
names. If your registrar requires using IP addresses, you can get the
IP addresses for your name servers using the dig utility (for Mac,
Unix, or Linux) or the nslookup utility (for Windows). We rarely
change the IP addresses of name servers; if we need to change IP
addresses, we'll notify you in advance.
You are still using your registrar's Name Server.
Change it to AWS Route53 name server.
Just adding the name servers to the registrar's website, brought my domain up and running.