Add domain to cPanel DNSONLY

hcraig

• August 30, 2017 08:01

I have a feeling I know the answer to this question, but it's just a guess so I'm going to ask the stupid question anyway because I've already invested a lot of time and energy reading and researching, none of which revealed anything explicit that would address my question. I installed cPanel DNSONLY on a fresh server. Everything works, so no whining here about it not working and error messages. However, I don't see "Add domain" or "Import domains" menu options anywhere. Have I misunderstood what "cPanel DNSONLY" does? All I want is a ... ahem ... "DNS only" control panel to run a nameserver. I don't need it hooked up in any way to another server with a control panel. Craig

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  dalem

  • August 30, 2017 13:35

  Yes I think you misunderstood the DNS only server is to run cpanel's clustered DNS so you would need at least one cpanel/whm server to sync with it. if you just need a a standalone DNS server I would recommend just installing PowerDNS and the the poweradmin web GUI Note: the cpanel DNS has PowerDNS as an option so you could probably install it on top of the cpanel DNS But I do not really see the benefit of it wasting servers resources to run the cpanel back end which you will never use.

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  hcraig

  • August 30, 2017 16:11

  Hi Dalem, Thanks. Well, that was a waste of a day and a half of my time. A poor decision on my part made based on a poor selection of a name for a product -- perhaps it should be renamed "DNSONLY for cPanel", or "DNSONLY only for cPanel" :) -- and the lack of an explicit statement in an obvious place at the beginning of the documentation. Thanks for the suggestion of the PowerDNS and Poweradmin combo. I was headed in that direction when I remembered reading about DNSONLY a while ago, and when I saw that PowerDNS was an option I dove right in. Looks aren't everything, but it's unfortunate that Poweradmin looks like it was hacked together over a caffeine-fuelled weekend of coding. Craig

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  dalem

  • August 31, 2017 14:38

  Yes Poweradmin its not pretty But it works we use a clustered setup for Reverse PTR

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  cPanelMichael

  • August 31, 2017 20:51

  Hello, You could technically use cPanel DNS-Only on it's own to host the DNS for a domain name. You'd just need to manually create and edit the DNS zones in the /var/named/ directory and then rebuild the DNS configuration file with the following command:
  /scripts/rebuilddnsconfig
  However, note that it's primarily intended for use with other cPanel hosting servers as part of a DNS cluster. Thank you.

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  hcraig

  • September 01, 2017 21:11

  Thanks Dalem. I'm leaning in that direction again. :) Thanks for the tip Michael. Appreciate a cPanel staff member responding.

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