DNS Zone Reset ALL

[romacities]

Under:
Main >> DNS Functions >> Reset a DNS Zone
There's a list of domains which I can click and reset to default current DNS settings.

Is there an automated way to reset all domains at once?

thanks.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

There are no tools or scripts included with cPanel that will automatically reset all DNS Zones on a server. I encourage you to open a feature request for such an option via:

Feature Requests for cPanel and WHM

Thank you.

 

[cPanelTristan]

This could be done with two commands in command line. One to kill the DNS zones and one to add the DNS zones. I'm only selecting the domains in /etc/trueuserdomains, which are the main domains. The issue here is going to be that subdomains will be yanked when doing this. You might change to grabbing the list from /etc/localdomains instead without the cut portion. Before doing this, a backup must be made of /var/named and /etc/named.conf:

cp -R /var/named /var/named.bak110826
cp -R /etc/named.conf /etc/named.conf.bak110826

The commands would then be to remove and readd the zones:

for i in `cat /etc/trueuserdomains | cut -d: -f1` ;do /scripts/killdns $i ;done
for i in `cat /etc/trueuserdomains | cut -d: -f1` ;do /scripts/add_dns --domain=$i ;done

I would highly suggest first running "/scripts/killdns domain.com" for one account, then "/scripts/add_dns --domain=domain.com" for that same account to see the results to ensure they are what you want before proceeding.

Please note that you could load the list from a precompiled list of domains instead also, then use `cat /root/domainlist` instead of reading from /etc/trueuserdomains. This way you can control what domains are being touched.

 

[lukapaunovic]

I urge admins/moderators to merge my reply to this thread: DNS Zone Reset ALL


Since solution @cPanelTristan posted doesn't work anymore I found a working one. Because add_dns and adddns script produces this:

/scripts/adddns --overwrite --ip 192.168.1.1 --domain mydomain.com --owner username

Sorry, you can not add a DNS record for a subdomain of another user’s domain.

Even with all correctly specified arguments. Probably because of absolute use of the API.

So I finally succeeded using command line API like specified here

First, of course, make backup and remove your zones like @cPanelTristan suggested.

Then replace 192.168.1.1 with your main shared IP and run this:

data=$(cat /etc/trueuserdomains | tr -d ' ')
ip="192.168.1.1"
for i in $data ;do
domain=$(echo $i | awk -F':' '{print $1}')
owner=$(echo $i | awk -F':' '{print $2}')

echo ;
echo Creating zone $domain on $owner;
whmapi1 adddns domain=$domain trueowner=$owner ip=$ip
echo ;
done

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello @lukapaunovic,

I've merged your post with this thread.

Thank you.

 

[Giuseppe]

Hello,

I suggest this command:

for i in $(cat /etc/trueuserdomains | cut -d: -f1); do whmapi1 resetzone domain=$i; done