Bug? Unable to parse zone: Invalid DNS record: Invalid name provided.

[bazzi]

When I edit a domain with MX entries for subdomains i get:

Unable to parse zone: Invalid DNS record: Invalid name provided.

But when I change this:
calimero 900 IN MX 0 mail.xx.nl.
support 900 IN MX 0 support.xx.nl.
support 900 IN MX 10 mx10.xx.nl.
support 900 IN MX 20 mx20.xx.nl.

To:
calimero.xx.nl. 900 IN MX 0 mail.xx.nl.
support.xx.nl. 900 IN MX 0 support.xx.nl.
support.xx.nl. 900 IN MX 10 mx10.xx.nl.
support.xx.nl. 900 IN MX 20 mx20.xx.nl.

I can save the record.

But when I would change again something in the record it is changed back to:
calimero 900 IN MX 0 mail.xx.nl.
support 900 IN MX 0 support.xx.nl.
support 900 IN MX 10 mx10.xx.nl.
support 900 IN MX 20 mx20.xx.nl.

Does anybody else can reproduce this problem? If so I will make a bug at bugzilla...

[cPanelDavidG]

Does anybody else can reproduce this problem? If so I will make a bug at bugzilla...

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[xerophyte]

I think you are violating the bind zone file syntax by saying
calimero.xx.nl. 900 IN MX 0 mail.xx.nl.


where the record says calimero.xx.nl. , the "." at the end says to bind its top level domain.

[cpanelnick]

support

is just the short way of writing

support.xx.nl.

when in the xx.nl zone

Any entry that does not end with a trailing . will get the zone name appended to it.

[ampunboss]

I have the same problem, there was no problem for just adding a record to domain, like:

subdomain 14400 IN A 111.111.111.11

Now, i got error: "Unable to parse zone: Invalid DNS record: Invalid name provided". by adding that format. This also happens to some other domains that should not happen.


Now i edit it manually to teh zone file

[docbreed]

Tring to add:
subdomain 14400 IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Unable to parse zone: Invalid DNS record: IP addresses are not allowable exchange values.

I can do this manually and bind restarts just fine.

[xiatica]

I'm getting the same error

failed: Invalid DNS record: Supplied exchange for MX record is invalid

with the google apps mx records.

haven't tried manually editing the files yet (don't know how yet).



cPanel 11.25.0-R42399 - WHM 11.25.0 - X 3.9
CENTOS 5.2 i686 virtuozzo on vps

[xiatica]

I was able to get this working by editing mx records from # Edit DNS Zone
rather than from # Edit MX Entry menu items in WHM.

Can anyone explain why there are two areas for editing MX records?

tia

[cPanelDon]

When using the feature "Edit MX Entry" in the DNS Functions of WHM, it is not required to include an a trailing period at the end of the new or modified MX destination (host).

For clarification, this is relating to the following menu path in WHM:
WHM: Main >> DNS Functions >> Edit MX Entry
Documentation: Edit MX Entry

As an example, the following MX destination hosts could be used for Google Apps; cPanel/WHM will automatically add the trailing period where required:

aspmx.l.google.com
alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
aspmx2.googlemail.com
aspmx3.googlemail.com

Related internal case ID: #36200