I use AWS for a number of different functions on my domain nowpresent.co and nowpresent.com. My website is hosted on Netlify at nowpresent.co, www.nowpresent.co, nowpresent.com and www.nowpresent.com. In order for the netlify aliases to resolve I have had to set my AWS R53 Registered Domains NS records to *.nsone.net.
I need to use AWS NameServers (eg. ns-X.awsdns-Y.com) for managing other services and functions that are internal to AWS. I cannot do this if the NS records are in Netlify.
What are the steps for me to use AWS NS records for A, CNAME etc. but still be able to route to netlify’s alias-based hosting? The documentation I found is this: Configure external DNS for a custom domain | Netlify Docs. In this it says “Point the record to Netlify’s load balancer IP address: 75.2.60.5.”.
I tried this previously and had issues getting all the different domains to resolve. Additionally I could not get LetsEncrypt to work to provide SSL Certificates. The only way I could get everything to work was to use the Netlify NS, and add my DNS records there.
Any clear suggestions on how to allow AWS R53 NameServers to be used by default would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks much!