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Hi,
I have a domain name www.avgoc.com and couple of subdomains forum.avgoc.com and funstuff.avgoc.com. The domain is hosted on some other network. For specific reasons I wanted to have contorl of the server and have set up my own DNS server with the content. The server is working fine. Now I would like to transfer/redirect the traffic to my server.
I have features like Domain Forwarding and Managed DNS where I can set up all the parameters except changing the name servers. I am little confused regarding the name server issue. I have set up the new name server on my personal DNS server as ns.avgoc.com. How do I update the name servers and divert the traffic to use my personal DNS server.
For Further information I have taken the screen shots of the configuration and can be accessed via these links:
1. The Managed DNS screen shot
http://www.avgoc.com/manageDNS-1.jpg
http://www.avgoc.com/manageDNS-2.jpg
http://www.avgoc.com/manageDNS-3.jpg

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