Minimum DNS entries for subdomains?

[mobcdi]

I need to manually edit my zone file and I was hoping a helpful forum member would spare a few minutes to answer a few questions for me.

I have a zone lets call it test.domain.tld which will hold all my DNS records (relatively small zone).
I have a number of subdomains off that called home.test.domain.tld, away.test.domain.tld,

I need to create cpanel accounts with uniqueID.home.test.domain.tld and need www & ftp access and these are the dns records I thought I needed to have but its not working for me, the IP address is the same for all accounts

1. uniqueID 14400 IN A IPADDRESS
2. www.uniqueID 14400 IN A IPADDRESS
3. ftp.uniqueID 14400 IN A IPADDRESS

Anyone able to tell me if

1. Does the spacing have to be a tab, or can I get away with using a space
2. What do I need to add/remove to have correct entries

 

[mobcdi]

There are already CNAME values
mail 14400 IN test.domain.tld.
www 14400 IN test.domain.tld.
ftp 14400 IN test.domain.tld.


Should I add CNAME records for the accounts uniqueID.home.test.domain.tld or would that just add confusion?

 

[cPanelGregK]

Greetings,

All necessary A records should be added automatically once you create the subdomain or addon domain. The entries would be added under the domain.tld zone file.

Is there a reason that you're wanting to add these manually?

 

[sanjaydagar123]

If you can access WHM, you just go to create account and put domain like home.test.domain.tld, away.test.domain.tld and put username and password for each domain, you will no need to add manually change dns entires, it will do automatically, when you will create account.

 

[mobcdi]

Hi cpanelgregk,

I need to manually edit my dns files because for some reason the secondary dns for my zone does not pick up the new zones when they are added to my cPanel DNS (the secondary dns is outside my control)

• I delete the zones that get created when I add the new accounts from my cPanel DNS and add the uniqueID and www.uniqueID to my zone file for test.doman.tld
• I also deleted the home.test and away.test zones
• I restart the bind service afterwards as well

Its a very small zone and the changes (when I get them to work) won't be happening alot and will be bulk inserts of between 20 & 40 accounts at a time

Could there be a record I'm forgetting to add to my test.domain.tld zone?
Do I need to modify the top part of the zone file in some way?
Is there a way to see the actual A record entries the outside world gets when my DNS is queried so I can see if they are fresh?

 

[cPanelGregK]

Greetings mobcdi,

Are you utilizing a cPanel DNS cluster, or is the secondary nameserver completely out of your control? If there are any issues with the clustering itself, please do open a support ticket so we can have a look.

As far as the DNS zones themselves are concerned, I would suggest creating/editing these within WHM so that you can be sure that proper syntax and spacing is utilized.

It might be a bit easier if you could submit a ticket, so that we can see first-hand what you're trying to do here. If you'd like, you can reference this forum post and we'll be happy to have a look. As always, we're standing by.

 

[mobcdi]

The secondary dns is completely outside my control (that might be a good thing
I don't have clustering enabled but somehow when i create new accounts on my host the zones appear on my cPanel dns until I delete them

I haven't got any emails from cpanel@dnshost to say there was a problem with the DNS server and named is still running

 

[Spiral]

Don't create a "subdomain.domain.com" DNS zone

Instead, modify "domain.com" and the only thing you
need to add is a single line with the subdomain IP.

subdomain IN A %ip%

If manually editing, "subdomain" is the first part of your subdomain
address and %ip% is the IP address where that subdomain is hosted.

 

[p-root]

Hi,

I have a cpanel /WHM server,and can any body tell me that how many "A" records whm suppots in one dns zone,because i have more then 700 "A" records in my one domain(under domain control panel),and now i want to transfer it to my dedicated server(whm/cpanel),so please guide me ....

If any body have any good control panel for the same(to create more then 1000 "A" records in once zone file),please tell me...

Thanks...

 

[hostingtech]

Same questions was asked in this below thread ,

http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/dns-records-146761.html