Nameserver problems !!

[justahost]

Morning all.

I have a VPS that has cPanel 11 on it.
Its been a good few years since I set up a cPanel server but went thrugh all the steps to initially set up WHM, assigned 2 nameservers, added IP and then added A entry etc and then created a domain on there.

Now, I can't get to the site and dnsreport says no nameservers are responding :s

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsrep...otcomhosts.com

Any help appreciated - and I like the new version 11, a lot better than the older vesions!

Cheers,
Ryan

[eNetHosts]

Your DNS connection is being refused on:

ns1.dotcomhosts.com [91.186.4.103]

Have you got any firewalls installed?

[justahost]

I did but closed that off so I could check, still the same result
I started again (thanks to the rebuild in the VPS) and when I try to add the A record for the nameserver in WHM, I get the following error:

"The zone for the root domain dotcomhosts.com is missing, or could not be read. The ip address will be read from the webserver configuration and a new zone will be created for this subdomain. Bind reconfiguring on uk using rndc Error reconfiguring bind on uk: rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused
Created DNS entry for ns1.dotcomhosts.com" - same hapens for ns2 as well.

Several hours later and I am losing hair now!!

Hope that helps someone help me out

Cheers
Ryan

[justahost]

No matter - all working now.

Not sure what was wrong but in the end I renamed the named.conf that cPanel created and used a named.conf that just had the basics in there:

key "rndc-key" {
algorithm hmac-md5;
secret "XmMrE4DSy/RkO0WTAp3OfA==";
};

controls {
inet 127.0.0.1 port 953
allow { 127.0.0.1; } keys { "rndc-key"; };
};


and it worked fine.

Ah well - at least I got to know cPanel intimately again after all this time (and it made me love Directadmin even more!!!)

Ry

[vagsoftware]

Wassup,

For bind (named) never count on default confs and always verify permissions on files and owner and group!

Respekt.