Mass DNS Zone Import

[Aaron Hatton]

Hello,

I currently have around 2,000 DNS zones which I am using on an account and am looking to move these to a cPanel cluster of 5 servers.

When looking on the current server the domains show as .txt files and when exporting they export as .txt zone files, is there a way to upload these to my cPanel server and assign them to cPanel users as well so they can amend records themselves.

I know if I am to rename the file to add a .db at the end and a few tweaks to the TTL format, I can add it manually to the /var/named/ folder however I am unable to assign this to a user for them to manage, some users have close to 300 domains to manage.

Is there a way to automate this to save me manually creating around 2,000 DNS Zones manually one by one for each user.

With Thanks

Aaron

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

There are no options in Web Host Manager that will automate the ownership assignment of the zones. You can copy over the zones with the correct file name to the /var/named directory and then rebuild the DNS configuration via:

/scripts/rebuilddnsconfig

Also, the following thread explains how to increment the serials in the zone:

https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/how-to-incremental-serial-number-in-dns-zone.211732/#post-873142

Note that accounts do not manage domain names unless they are added to the account as parked or addon domain names.

Thank you.