Cpanel Dnsonly sync problem

[jameshsi]

Hi!
I use my script to create DNS zone files, why ? Cause I got some domains not in the server but I have to provide them DNS services, now, I try to use DNSonly and I found it seems only good for the domain is hosting on the server.

Is there any API or /scripts/xxx.pl to let me change the zone files and it will also sync to the dnsonly servers ?

Regards,

James

[jameshsi]

I found there is a API in cpanel:
http://www.cpanel.net/plugins/xmlapi/index.html
and there is a description in http://www.cpanel.net/plugins/xmlapi/adddns.html says:

If you wish to modify the zone information, use editdns.

What is that means ? What is editdns ?


Regards,


James

[jameshsi]

Anyone knows ?

[bigste]

Cause I got some domains not in the server but I have to provide them DNS services

couldn't you just create accounts for these domains even though they don't live on your server. Then you could edit their Zones files to reflect where they do live.
How many of these domains do you have?

[jameshsi]

More than 1 thousand.

[rking]

The cPanel API is a very handy tool for performing cPanel requests outside of the cPanel interfaces themselves. PHP is my language of choice and with a little coding, you can easily write a script to take your DNS modifications and mimic them to your server and cluster. Honestly, I don't know if there is an API call to the server which will automatically sync the DNS zone with the slave cluster. If not, you can just mimic the editdns API call to those servers as well within your script.

Here are some of the helpful links I keep handy for when I want to go making API calls.

http://www.cpanel.net/plugins/xmlapi/
http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=76995
http://forums.cpanel.net/showpost.ph...38&postcount=6
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/book.xml.php

[cpanelkenneth]

Zones added via the 'Add a DNS Zone' function with WHM will be synced in a cPanel DNSONLY environment.

There is an XML API call for this, which you could use to add the Zones. If you go this route, you'll need to remove the zones from named.conf and /var/named before hand ( making backups of course ).

Another quicker way that might work, but is untested and unrecommended, is to add the zone name ( e.g. example.com ) to root's user file in /var/cpanel/users. In the format DNS#=example.com where the # is an incremented number. That should create the ownership and necessary link within the product for them to be synced into the cluster.