WHM with separate DNS and auto zone creation

Hi,

I am managing web-hosting in a university data center. I have recently installed WHM on CentOS7.

Currently, we are running 1 DNS server on linux machine (CentOS) which is registered with our domain provider as ns1.domain.com.

I do not want to use DNS server of WHM as separate DNS server is already running, so how can i avoid the automatic zone creation and A records creation (such as mail.vhost1.domain.com, ftp.vhost1.domain.com) in WHM when I create an account?

I would be grateful if someone could tell me if its possible or not, and also the best course of action in this scenario.

 

Hi. Thank you for the reply.
Yes, I edited the virtualftp template (which is for shared IP address) and removed everything. It gave an error (attached). Then I removed all the A records from this template, but still zone files are being created for new accounts.

 

@cPanelMichael
Oh ok. Now I get it Thank you very much for explaining this to me

One more thing...If I am using WHM only for creating subdomains for my domain (e.g. sub1.domain.com, sub2.domain.com, and so on), which is a better way of achieving this:
1. Add New Accounts against each subdomain and in Domain section of Account creation give the subdomain in the Domain option. This way WHM will create zones for each subdomain, as you mentioned.
2. Add a reseller account against my domain. Then add subdomains through this account by going to List Accounts section and navigating to Cpanel of this account.

Which is the right way here?

 

Thank you