WHM dns system creates faulty SOA record entry.

[jols]

This has been occurring for, well, just about forever and I have never received any decent response of how to fix this issue.

If you open a new account, or just add a new dns zone, the cpanel system will take the email address that I set up as the main contact email address for the server, and simply remove the @ symbol, replacing this with a dot, then use this as a (faulty) SOA record.

For example, if I enter the following email address as the contact email address for the server, i.e. the one I want to use from which to receive server alerts:

[email protected]

Then the cPanel system will create an SOA record like this:

alert22.mydomain.com

Which will never work because #1, mydomain.com is not even hosted on this same server. And #2, there is no such subdomain (alert22) that has been established for this domain.

Now, I supposed I could set up another email address, that is locally based, then establish a new subdomain for that domain, then forward the email, etc. etc. etc. but sheesh! Why would cPanel design such a system that is faulty in this regard, right-out-of-the-box? I hope I am just missing something easy here, like perhaps some field in WHM where I forget to enter which SOL subdomain.domain.com I want to use.

Anyone?

Thanks much.

 

[quietFinn]

It's not faulty, it's exactly as the mail address in the SOA record is supposed to be.
See here:
Chapter 8 - SOA Record

NOTE: Format is mailbox-name.domain.com, for example, hostmaster.example.com (uses a dot not the more normal @ sign, since @ has other uses in the zone file) but mail is sent to [email protected].

 

[jols]

That's all fine and dandy as long as one does not use an off-server email address in:

WHM ---> Basic cPanel & WHM Setup ---> * Enter one or more email addresses to contact in case a problem arises with this server.

I guess I should have known somehow that this was supposed to be an email address based on the same server???

 

[LDHosting]

The email account doesn't need to be hosted on the same server. What quietFinn says is correct, replacing the @ with a . in the RNAME field in the zone file is the correct way to do it.

If you wanted to use the email "[email protected]" then it would need to be entered as "mydns.gmail.com".

You can see more information about each of the SOA values, including the RNAME value at the link below:

Recommendations for DNS SOA Values — RIPE Network Coordination Centre

 

[quietFinn]

You can define the mail address WHM uses when you Add a DNS Zone or Create a New Account in the Zone templates:
WHM-> DNS Functions-> Edit Zone templates