main name servers

[scwhite]

I have searched this and other forums and read install guides and can't seem to nail this.

I cleaned off a different panel on my server1.mydomain.com dedicated shared hosting server and had cpanel installed. My main website and whmcs/ssl is on a hostgator business account. I did this to have my site separate from my shared hosting server(s) so my customers can still reach us if there is a problem.

hostgator created a DNS zone and everything for our main domain (ns1,ns2, www, ftp etc is all of course set to my dedicated IP with hostgator.

The first time I logged in and powered up cpanel I left ns1 & ns2 as the main root name servers.

I'm unsure how to configure this setup to allow for my customers to list ns1 & ns2.maindomain.com as there name servers since these names servers now point to the hostgator IP and I cannot add zones on that shared hosting account.

I would appreciate any input? I do not want to do this wrong and screw up our main domains DNS but want to of cours allow our customers to point there domains to our name servers.

[scwhite]

OK, since I do not want the shared webhosting server to affect my main domain, I registered ns3 & ns4 at my registrar and pointed them to my webhosting server server1. I also added A records in my DNS zone on gator pointing to it as well (I assume not needed as they resolve directly as registered nameservers). They both ping to the right ip. I then clicked the 'add A record' for each in WHM and both ns3 & ns4 now have A records in the WHM panel.

I then added an account and listed ns3 & ns4 as the name servers and went to that domains registrar ans pointed its nameservers to ns3 & ns4. The domain does not resolve yet. Does the above process look correct and sometime over the next x amount of hours it should start or am I missing something.

[scwhite]

I have been working on this problem with a few folks on webhostingtalk and posted this over there to conclude:

well I just don't know what to think.

In desparation (simply everything seemed to be setup perfectly) I switched to MyDNS in WHM and everything now works perfectly. nslookup (from different box :-) returns everything and I went to viewdns.info and all of the reports are flawless. Bind simply must be toast on this install but damned if I know why. ports are open both ways, A records in place etc..

I do know that when I run the whm update script for nameservers IPs the file nameserverips.yaml is updated with "--- {}". Thats troubling and I assume could be tied to the issue. There are a few unanswered threads on cpanel forums I came across in my search travels dating back to 2007 and the OP's had what sounded like the same problem.

I am not sure whether to trash the install and do it again from scratch or simply thank the DNS gods for allowing MyDNS to work on this box and move forward. I still have cloud linux, Softaculous and WHMxtra to install and hate having an issue I can't get to the bottom of BUT it does work properly and I see nothing else wrong and there were no messages in any of the logs files, just DNS query timeouts on Bind.


Might re-install but want to update this one if anyone else has the same issue. Had I seen this a couple of days ago I would have tried it just assumed the error was DNS config and problem would follow to MyDNS as well.

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

It's possible there is a configuration issue with Bind. The most common way this is noticeable is if you receive "connection refused" error messages when running the following command:

# rndc status

I suggest opening a support ticket so that we can take a closer look:

Submit A Ticket

You can post the ticket number here so we can track the issue.

Thank you.

[cPanelTristan]

Please check if this forum thread pertains to your issue:

http://forums.cpanel.net/f34/named-w...rt-284821.html

You can try restarting named itself to see if you get a connection refused on port 953. If you do, it is in all likelihood the portreserve issue.