Does BIND have to be disabled in local server to use remote DNSOnly servers?

deka

• July 24, 2014 15:43

I've installed DNSOnly in two VPS's, each VPS is for one nameserver. In three cPanel servers I then enabled DNS clustering and added both DNSOnly servers to each of them. All appears to be good - green status ticks in all servers. DNS Role is write-only in cPanel server to DNSOnly servers. The problem is the 3 cPanel servers all have client accounts hosted in them using 'local' named servers. If I edit a client DNS zone to use DNSOnly servers then no A records, SOA or Nameservers are found (nothing changes at DNSOnly servers). Is this because BIND is not disabled in local server? If I disable BIND in local server, then all sites will, I assume, go down - How can I edit DNS zone records to use remote servers and also allow local nameservers to be used too?

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  deka

  • July 25, 2014 03:28

  Can somebody just tell me if BIND *has* to be disabled in local server for remote DNSOnly to handle DNS requests?

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 25, 2014 12:48

  Hello :) It's okay to leave Bind enabled on the local name servers, but it's not required if you are using other servers for DNS purposes. Note the issue you described likely has nothing to do with Bind being enabled/disabled on the local name server. You should review a website such as IntoDNS for that domain name to see what the problem might be. Thank you.

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  deka

  • July 25, 2014 13:29

  Thanks Michael The problem is the domain is not resolving with the nameservers but I can't work out why as all looks good. I may just need to give propagation more time, though it has been 24 hours. I thought it may have been BIND but I can now eliminate that. Thanks again for that info, it was really helpful.

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 25, 2014 15:09

  [quote="deka, post: 1695151">The problem is the domain is not resolving with the nameservers
  Have you used the "dig" command or a website such as IntoDNS to determine if the name servers at the registrar are correct? Thank you.

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  deka

  • July 25, 2014 16:51

  Since my lasy post the domain has propagated and now resolves without errors. The following showed the NS's were correct but there was no A record: root@host [~]# dig NS domain.com +trace
  Further check showed: root@host [~]# dig domain.com @nsxx.host.com ;domain.com. IN A root@host [~]# dig domain.com @nsxx.host.com ;domain.com. IN A
  It just took a bit longer than I'm used to for propagation but all good now. Thank you.

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 25, 2014 17:12

  I am happy to see the issue is now resolved. Thank you for updating us with the outcome.

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  deka

  • July 26, 2014 10:23

  I was mistaken in believing that propagation was the reason for domains not resolving with the nameservers. My cPanel DNS changes are wrote to DNSONLY and the /var/named/domain.com.db is updated, as expected. However, named.conf is not updated and therefore newly added domains do not resolve with the nameservers. Domains are only wrote to named.conf if I run the following: /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/rebuilddnsconfig I've since added more domains, none of which are added to named.conf unless /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/rebuilddnsconfig is run. Is this a known issue / bug?

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