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Hello everyone.

I have been using VestaCP for a long time, and I was forced to change the server.

I'm using a new OVH Ubuntu 16.04 Server (64 bits). Yesterday I changed the configuration of my NS in my registrar, and today the mayhem started.

Basically, in my registrar website I have ns1.mysite.com and ns2.mysite.com (being mysite.com my domain) in the section "Personal DNS server", pointing to my IP address. In nameservers, I'm using ns1.mysite.com. and ns2.mysite.com..

Now, in my server, I started purging bind9-host before installing VestaCP, and without purging it, as I read that there was some problems with it.

I do the installation of Vesta CP with the following command:
The panel installs OK, I can access, I go to 'Packages' section and delete all packages but 'default'. I edit 'default' and change the nameservers for ns1.mysite.com and ns2.mysite.com. Then I go to the section 'Web', where I can find that there is a new web configured as panel.mysite.com. I tried both leaving, removing, and going to the 'DNS' section, editing, and choosing child-ns and adding my ns1.mysite.com and ns2.mysite.com and makes no difference.

So I try to add a new website called mysite.com (like panel.mysite.com but just without the word panel). Again, I choose it as child-ns, I'm sure it's using ns1.mysite.com and ns2.mysite.com and eventually I can access to the temporal website (although now is not working and I can't find the reason).

The matter is that when I try to use letsencrypt, no matter if it's visually or through the cli, I always receive the same error: 'Error: DNS problem: SERVFAIL looking up A for mysite.com'. If I use mxtoolbox.com, I receive the error 'Loop detected! We were referred back to 'XX.XX.XX.XX''

The configuration of my DNS is the following:

• mail._domain...TXT "k=rsa; p=lsakjhdkiashdkahsdkaspaSDASDAUAAS9s89asas88sa8d0a"
  _domainkeyTXT "t=y; o=~;"
  _dmarcTXT "v=DMARC1; p=none"
  @TXT "v=spf1 a mx ip4:XX.XX.XX.XX ?all"
  @MX10 mail.mysite.com.
  ftpA XX.XX.XX.XX
  popA XX.XX.XX.XX
  wwwA XX.XX.XX.XX
  mailA XX.XX.XX.XX
  @A XX.XX.XX.XX
  EDIT
  DELETE
  @NS ns2.mysite.com.
  @NS ns1.mysite.com.

I don't know what else I can do, I spent the whole day trying to sort it, I access to my old panel and change the configuration to be the same and it's still not working. Can anyone give me some help with this, please?

I think I have it working now, but I'm not sure if it will work for long.

I reinstalled, this time using Centos 7. I added the website without changing the default Name Servers. So the Web Template is sill default, and the Name Servers of the package are still ns1.localhost.ltd and ns2.localhost.ltd.

I think this is not how it should be working, and definitely, is not how it is working in my old server.

Anyone can bring some light to this topic, please?

Well, I don't know if it is because of OVH's Ubuntu kernel, or Ubuntu itself, or because I didn't use the command generator in Vesta's website, but with Centos I managed to add my own DNS, remove the generic ones, choose child-ns option, and everything works. I'll continue investigating, but I consider this problem solved.