Error while trying to load DNS zone file

[nibb]

I'm using PowerDNS which was converted from BIND and so its using this as a back end. cPanel gives this as officially to reload a manual DNS zone change for PDNS:

https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/360057601693-How-to-force-PowerDNS-to-reload-a-zone

I have to restore some zones from a backup, this command fails for the restored zones (works fine for previous ones) with the following message:

Example running:
pdnsutil load-zone example.com /var/named/example.com.db

Trows:

[bindbackend] Done parsing domains, 3 rejected, 150 new, 0 removed
Creating 'example.com'
Domain 'example.com' was not created - perhaps backend (bind) does not support storing new zones.

I have checked, and the file is correct and placed on /var/named, I don't see any difference between other zone files. I can also edit this fine from cPanel servers. This only happens when I restore a zone from scratch, but previous zones work fine. This implies that something is missing when I do my restore. Do I need to add some BIND configuration for the restored zone somewhere?

 

[nibb]

I think I found the issue. It seems the domain also has to be created in /etc/named.conf as well.

Is there a BIND command I can run to create this safely instead of having to edit the config manually? That way I can put this into the backup restore process first.

 

[quietFinn]

If you do cPanel backups and you have "Backup System Files" enabled you find the file in system/files/_etc_named.conf.gz

 

[rbairwell]

Is there a BIND command I can run to create this safely instead of having to edit the config manually?

Not that I'm aware of, but cPanel does have /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/rebuilddnsconfig (aka /scripts/rebuilddnsconfig ) which will rebuild named.conf .