2: Transfer dns to route 53 and configure.

DNS

My current DNS for pubgolf is with LCN.com. I’d like to have kept using lcn so rather than transferring the domain name to Route 53 I’m going to set up a new hosted zone then point the lcn nameservers at the appropriate Route53 name servers.

Set up a hosted zone in route 53

• Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Route 53 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/
• In the Create hosted zone pane, enter pubgolf.co.uk

Then click o the create hosted zone button.

The zone has now been created in route 53. this has listed the following nameservers for the zone:

ns-538.awsdns-03.net.
ns-1866.awsdns-41.co.uk.
ns-295.awsdns-36.com.
ns-1078.awsdns-06.org.

Reset nameservers on LCN.com to the AWS name servers

The LCN dns servers currently point to a cpanel service I use. I’m not going to tuch the cpanel settings but will just swap the nameservers over to the AWS addresses.

then click on update.

the lcn page now tells me that the change will take 12 - 48hrs to replicate.

Update Route53 to point at the s3 bucket.

Back in the AWS console I select the hosted zone then need to create a record. *Selecting the pubgolf.co.uk hosted zone *Then click on create record. *Enter the info to set up an alias record pointing at the s3 bucket

Repeat for www.pubgolf.co.uk

Wait

The DNS changes have now been made. So it’s a case of waiting until things sync up.