A couple of questions with changing name servers

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  prinscipia · Member · May 19, 2014 at 1:36 pm

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  Hi all,

  I recently bought a domain through wordpress but decided to move my site over to siteground. I’ve read wordpress’s documentation on changing name servers and editing the dns settings but still had a couple questions:

  1) I’ve changed the name servers under that tab of the edit domain options, but what about the “NS” listing under the edit DNS tab? I see no way to either remove that listing or verify that it is indeed pointing to site ground. Does anything need be done here?

  2) I deleted the other DNS listings and setup my own A listing instead pointing to one of the IP’s siteground gave me. I’m wondering though, since siteground gave me two different IP’s, one for each name server they listed, do I need to set up two A references? How does this play into things?

  Thanks so much for the help!

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  timethief · Member · May 19, 2014 at 6:07 pm

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  I’ll tag this thread for a Staff follow-up. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

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  prinscipia · Member · May 20, 2014 at 2:01 pm

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  I’ll keep an eye out for it, thanks

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  kardotim · Member · May 21, 2014 at 7:10 am

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  I see that you’ve changed the NS records and the domain redirects. Please let us know if you need any further assistance!

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  prinscipia · Member · May 21, 2014 at 2:04 pm

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  Yes, though my question goes a bit beyond that:

  1) I assume the NS listing of “handled by wordpress” on the “Edit DNS” tab will not effect anything negatively if being left as such?

  2) Do I need to make a second listing for the other NS IP that siteground gave me, and if so, how?

  So I can access the domain name to the servers I want it to now, but I’m asking these questions to ensure a fully valid pointing (so that nothing might get messed up later).

  Thanks

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  kardotim · Member · May 21, 2014 at 2:13 pm

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  The DNS records on WordPress.com are not being used since the name server records are pointed to siteground. The redirection works perfectly fine so you don’t need to do anything else.

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  prinscipia · Member · May 23, 2014 at 2:34 am

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  I’m a bit curious about how that second IP might interact with things, but I’ll take your word on it that everything’s fine. So far I’ve had little issues other than an occasional redirect to wordpress.com (though I believe that’s just my browser cookies getting confused).

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  kardotim · Member · May 23, 2014 at 5:34 am

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  You might want to try clearing out your cache and cookies using the guide below:

  Solve Common Browser Issues

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  prinscipia · Member · May 23, 2014 at 2:19 pm

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  I had already done that.
  I guess I’ll just consider the matter closed, thanks!