Also known as child nameservers or glue records, these are records that will allow you to use your server for DNS without any pre-existing DNS configuration.
These records essentially allow a domain to have nameserver records without requiring a working DNS setup already.
If you have a domain via Servers Australia we can assist with the setup of this. Otherwise, self-managed servers will need to go through setting up their own nameservers, if they want their server to handle the DNS.
Adding host records at the registry:
Before you can assign your nameservers to your domain, the central domain registry needs to know each of the names of your nameservers along with their IP addresses. These are called Host Records.
Find the place at your registrar where you can configure these. Many registrars will simply refer to them as Hosts or Glue Records. A few may label them more abstractly, referring to "configuring nameservers with IPs", "host summary", "nameserver registration", or something similar.
An example setup for the domain yourdomain.com.au you would configure the following records:
ns1.yourdomain.com.au
ns2.yourdomain.com.au
Both of these records would have the IP address of your server.
Once created, you can then set yourdomain.com.au (or any other domains you wish to have DNS on your server) to ns1.yourdomain.com.au and ns2.yourdomain.com.au.
Note
Sometimes your server may only have a single IP address assigned, which is fine to use for both records. Typically you would see 2 different IP’s for redundancy, so some domain providers may enforce this. You may need to reach out to their support to have them bypass this.
An example setup: