Why WHM >> Networking Setup >> Nameserver IPs is not showing the IPs

[Isamtron]

Hello,

Can someone tell me how to correctly setup the main nameservers in WHM?

I have 5 usable IPs and I followed WHM setup instructions normally but they are not showing in Main >> Networking Setup >> Nameserver IPs.

Note: the main server site is working!

Please help.

 

[JaredR.]

Not necessary

Setting nameserver IP addresses in this interface is not necessary. The only thing that it does is it edits /etc/nameserverips. It does not affect the way your nameservers work or the contents of any of your domains' zone files.

I recommend that you also review my post from earlier today about this:

http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/assigning-ip-address-162633.html

If it is important to you to have the settings listed, you can edit /etc/nameservips directly using an editor like vi or nano, but as you have discovered, it is not necessary to run your nameservers or host your sites.

 

[Isamtron]

Thank you, Jared. The link solved half of the problem, now I see the IPs but still when I try to ping ns1/ns2.mydomain.com I get "ping: cannot resolve ns2.mydomain.com: Unknown host".

The weird thing is the site is working normally!

Please advise.

 

[cPanelDon]

Thank you, Jared. The link solved half of the problem, now I see the IPs but still when I try to ping ns1/ns2.mydomain.com I get "ping: cannot resolve ns2.mydomain.com: Unknown host".

The weird thing is the site is working normally!

Please advise.

Please ensure that your authoritative DNS/name servers have an A record for the sub-domains used. For example, if your name server is ns1.domain.tld, please ensure to create an A record for ns1.domain.tld, in the (parent) DNS zone of domain.tld, that points the ns1 sub-domain to the same IP address that was used to register your ns1.domain.tld DNS/name server at the domain registrar.

You may create an A (Address) record for name servers using WHM via either of the following two menu paths:

• WHM: Main >> DNS Functions >> Edit DNS Zone
• WHM: Main >> Server Configuration >> Basic cPanel/WHM Setup >> Nameservers >> Add an A entry for this nameserver