Cpanel Box and 2 external DNS Server Setup ?

[yongkyung]

Ok, before I go off scouring the web for information on this, I thought I'd post and see if anybody has a similar setup, and would share their knowledge... Yeah..I'm being lazy.

The setup:

1 - Cpanel box
2 - Seperate DNS boxes as ns1 and ns2 NOT running Cpanel

What I need it to do:

When I create an account in WHM it'll transfer and update the zone records for both the Master and Slave nameservers which are each on seperate boxes NOT running Cpanel.

I currently have 2 cpanel boxes running ns1 and ns2 respectively... Pretty easy to get zones to transfer. Just not sure how to do it on two external dns boxes not running cpanel.

Any insight or a hand held walkthrough would be greatly appreciated. Plus if you're ever in Chicago, I'll buy ya enough Tequila to drown an elephant. ;-)

tia,

Yong

[netarus]

yongkyung, any progress on this post?

[yong]

Nothing yet man.

Starting the project in another week. Haven't really researched any further. Was hoping that somebody had a quick and easy walkthrough.

Looks like I'll be hitting the Bind books for now. I'll post 'my' process after I've gotten it all working.

peace,

Yong

[ivanoats]

I'd be really interested in your solution for this if you have one. Thanks!

[ldm]

Ok, before I go off scouring the web for information on this, I thought I'd post and see if anybody has a similar setup, and would share their knowledge... Yeah..I'm being lazy.

The setup:

1 - Cpanel box
2 - Seperate DNS boxes as ns1 and ns2 NOT running Cpanel

What I need it to do:

When I create an account in WHM it'll transfer and update the zone records for both the Master and Slave nameservers which are each on seperate boxes NOT running Cpanel.

I currently have 2 cpanel boxes running ns1 and ns2 respectively... Pretty easy to get zones to transfer. Just not sure how to do it on two external dns boxes not running cpanel.

Any insight or a hand held walkthrough would be greatly appreciated. Plus if you're ever in Chicago, I'll buy ya enough Tequila to drown an elephant. ;-)

tia,

Yong

I tried to do a similar setup - with the cPanel free DNSONLY being used for a DNS, however for some reason it's refusing to connect, even though I did everything according to the cPanel's documentation.

I don't think it will work with BIND alone because you need to create the slave zones configs for each primary domain zone created at the cPanel, something BIND won't do on it's own - cPanel's DNSONLY is supposed to do exactly that.

Otherwise you need a custom script that will create these zones for BIND.

[MrHits]

i've been doing this for years....

1) create an include file for servername.zones

2) put this script in /var/named/zones.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

my $outfile ="/var/named/servername.zones";
my @files = glob("/var/named/*");
open (OUTFILE, ">$outfile");
foreach my $file (@files)
{
$file =~ s/\/var\/named\///;
my ($file_wo_ext) = ($file =~ /^(.+?)\.db$/);
unless ($file_wo_ext eq "")
{
#print OUTFILE join("\t", ('zone ', $file_wo_ext, "SERVERNAME/$file")).

print OUTFILE "zone \"$file_wo_ext\" \{
type master\;
file \"\/var\/named\/colo3\/$file\"\;
\}\;\n
";
}
}
close(OUTFILE);


3) make a rsyn script to sync the /var/named folder to the include folder on /var/named/SERVERNAME/

your /etc/named/conf file will include the files in your /var/named/SERVERNAME/servername.zones files

bada bing..... the reason why I put SERVERNAME is because I have a lot of servers...so be sure to replace SERVERNAME with the servername (only part far left to the octet..so server5.yourdomain.com would be server5)

[MrHits]

oh ya..and it should be noted...i recently switched to using the cpanel only dns setup with clustering..... I like it a lot.. any reason why you don't want to use it? its free!