DNS Zone Templates problem

[karlos]

Hello,

I go to

Main >> DNS Functions >> Edit Zone Templates

and add a TXT entry

%domain%. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx -all"

but when I "Create a New Account" the DNS Zone created for that new domain don't show me the changes I made in the templates!!

Where are the REAL templates used for Cpanel? I look in /var/cpanel/zonetemplates/ and find the simple, standard and standardvirtualftp templates with my changes but seems like cpanel don't use them.

I have a WHM 10.8.0 cPanel 10.9.0-R37 Fedora i686 - WHM X v3.1.0 and I restarted the named service and cpanel service with no luck.


Thanks in advance for your help.

[erik@delphi]

looks like you tryed to add a SPF record it's not a good idea to automate that add it for each domain seperatly some clients might not like SPF

[karlos]

Well, yes I want to add that SPF record in every new account DNS zone, and I hope to fix some email issues with servers which implement SPF validation like hotmail.com do. And I'll configure the email clients to use the correct SMTP server for sending emails and pass the SPF validation in the MTAs with SPF enabled.

Anyway I am confused with this template issue. Why don't show me my templates modification in the new DNS zone? Is Cpanel using other templates?

[dexus]

Yes, this is realy a problem...

I found templates located here:
/var/cpanel/zonetemplates

and here:
/usr/local/cpanel/etc/zonetemplates

but cpanel just don't use them Can someone please explain this...

[ajaydsouza]

This is the same problem I am facing. I customized my zonetemplates as well, but the New Accounts don't get created with these templates.

[Vinayak]

I have the same settings, changed entries at /var/cpanel/zonetemplates/ as per my liking on all of my servers and they seems to be working perfectly.

Are you people creating new acounts as root or you have made yourself a reseller for yourself, if so have you used Edit Zone Templates from within that reseller account's WHM?

[dexus]

I am creating new accounts as root, and I tried to edit zone files from WHM and from shell, as I mentioned but cPanel is totaly ignoring those changes. I think that those templates that we are changing are only used for addon domains, but I can't find nowhere tamplates that cPanel is using for new accounts, so weird...

@Vinsar
Are you creating new accounts as a root or reseller?

[Vinayak]

I have checked it both ways and its working.

I have one of my own Brand under me as reseller so when an account is created form there it gets all the values populated properly.

And when I create a new account as root again gets all the values populated properly.

On my server there are only three files at

/var/cpanel/zonetemplates/ and those are simple, standard & standardvirtualftp

no subfolders etc.

BTW I edited the files from shell only.

[dexus]

I realy don't understand this. I have the same problem on five servers, and cPanel just ignores changes in those template files.

Did you maybe restarted server or cPanel or something else... after those changes?

[Vinayak]

I am not sure, but maybe I started bind.

You can try it.

[_user1]

I can not apply my new zone template too...
Please fix it. Thank you!

[cpanelkenneth]

Tested this on 11.4.2-CURRENT_13519

Edit Zone Templates
Selected "standardvirtualftp - used for creating a the default zone on a new account with a virtual ftp ip"
Added the SPF record as shown in the first entry in this thread
Saved the template
Created a new user.
Checked /var/named:
; Zone file for spf.me
$TTL 14400
@ 86400 IN SOA mundane.cpqa.internal. cpanelqa.cpanel.net. (
2007060801 ; serial, todays date+todays
86400 ; refresh, seconds
7200 ; retry, seconds
3600000 ; expire, seconds
86400 ) ; minimum, seconds

spf.me. 86400 IN NS mundane.cpqa.internal.
spf.me. 86400 IN NS mundane.cpqa.internal.
spf.me. 86400 IN NS mundane.cpqa.internal.
spf.me. 86400 IN NS mundane.cpqa.internal.


spf.me. IN A 192.168.90.21

localhost.spf.me. IN A 127.0.0.1

spf.me. IN MX 0 spf.me.

mail IN CNAME spf.me.
www IN CNAME spf.me.
ftp IN A 192.168.90.21

spf.me. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx -all"



The "standard" template is used when an account has a dedicated IP. The standardvirtualftp template is used for all shared IP accounts.

[thurmma]

Tested this on 11.4.2-CURRENT_13519

Edit Zone Templates
Selected "standardvirtualftp - used for creating a the default zone on a new account with a virtual ftp ip"

The "standard" template is used when an account has a dedicated IP. The standardvirtualftp template is used for all shared IP accounts.

THANK YOU! This is what I have been looking for for some time now

[4u123]

We have changed all three zone templates on all our servers, simply changing the default MX record but the templates are ignored across all 30 servers!

[Vinayak]

We have changed all three zone templates on all our servers, simply changing the default MX record but the templates are ignored across all 30 servers!

Where did you did that, through WHM or at specified directories?

Are you creating hosted account as root or as reseller?

Have you restarted bind?

Changing template will not change the zone records of existing accounts, changes will be applied to new account creation.