My web hosting provider is providing 4 nameservers, which do I use to to point my domain?

Question

I host my domain at GoDaddy, and purchased hosting from another website. The new website I'm using for hosting is providing 4 nameservers, while in GoDaddy it only provides 2 text fields to enter custom nameservers.

Example of the two text fields

These are the 4 nameservers that my new hosting account is providing me

ns1.example.com
ns2.example.com
ns3.example.com
ns4.example.com

Which of the four nameservers do I use when pointing my GoDaddy domain to my new hosting account?

Surely it's possible to add more entries? This less cropped screenshot suggests there is a button for it: https://kinsta.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/change-godaddy-nameservers-5.png — Håkan Lindqvist, Jul 12 '18 at 06:26
@HåkanLindqvist I've found when there's not a button some registrars will show a third field when you fill out the first two, and so on. — ceejayoz, Jul 12 '18 at 15:53

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 12 '18 at 04:14

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All of them.

answered Jul 12 '18 at 04:14

Wesley

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 12 '18 at 05:57

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Best is to configure all of them if possible. But if not, you can select any two. All of them should serve exactly same information. You just have multiple servers for redundancy. Quite common strategy is to just take the first two.

answered Jul 12 '18 at 05:57

Kimmo Ahokas

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 12 '18 at 15:50

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Just use all of them. It's like this just in case one of the nameservers are down. Or take two if you really want. ns2 and ns4 sound good!

answered Jul 12 '18 at 15:50

Anonymous Nyan Cat

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My web hosting provider is providing 4 nameservers, which do I use to to point my domain?

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