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Knowledgebase Home Knowledgebase Home Search the Knowledgebase Browse by Category [Advanced Search] -- Select Category -- Billing Sales Support     - Advanced Plan     - Free Plan     - Premium Plan     - Pro Plan     - Standard Plan System Status Page Knowledgebase Home > Sales Knowledgebase Home > Support Knowledgebase Home > Support > Free Plan Knowledgebase Home > Support > Premium Plan Knowledgebase Home > Support > Advanced Plan How do I set-up a DNS monitor? Would you like to... Print this page Email this page Post a comment Subscribe me Add to favorites User Opinions 46% 53% (317 votes) How would you rate this answer? Helpful Not helpful Help us improve. Why was this unhelpful? Thank you for rating this answer. In your Control Panel, from the service drop down menu choose dns (53). For the host name enter the name of your dns server. For example enter ns1.mywebhost.com where ns1.mywebhost.com is one of the actual name servers your domain is pointed to. Now you should see two additional fields, domain name and IP address. Here you can enter your domain name (for example domain.com) and the static IP address it should resolve to (for example 12.345.67.89). Complete the rest of the settings and click Update/Save. So what we are doing now would be to query ns1.mywebhost.com for the domain name domain.com. We compare the IP address we get in response to the IP address entered in the monitor settings. If there is a difference, or if there is no reply at all, then we alert you the dns server is down and/or not responding. If you wanted to check another name server as well you can create an additional monitor the same way except enter ns2.mywebhost.com as the hostname. If you do not want to check a specific domain name and IP address you can leave these fields blank and we will just check to make sure the name server is responding in general. Related Questions No related questions were found. Attachments No attachments were found.