Want to use external DNS and sync all dns zones with digitalocean or vultr via API

Saira Tayyab

• December 27, 2024 14:22

Hi,

I want to sync all dns zones of WHM with an external DNS server. I currently have droplet on Digitalocean and want to sync zones with digitalocean, similarly, in some cases I might use Vultr VMs and in that case will sync zones with Vultr NS.

Can someone please help me?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • December 27, 2024 15:05

  Hey there!  This is exactly what our DNSOnly product is designed to do, if you were interested in creating a DNS cluster:

  https://docs.cpanel.net/knowledge-base/dnsonly/cpanel-dnsonly/

  This let's you create a DNS cluster between as many servers as you wish for DNS redundancy.

  I don't have any tools available that would let you sync the zones to non-cPanel machines.

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  Saira Tayyab

  • December 27, 2024 22:04

  I understand the usage of DNSOnly product but I want to use external DNS service like Vultr and DigitalOcean.
  Is it possible to fetch DNS zone details within cpanel via API or hooks and then I can automate to push zone information to external dns service APIs.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • December 27, 2024 22:16

  Sure - we have two options that might work for this situation.

  If you are fine with dealing with encoded output, you can use this call to pull any zone on the server:

  https://api.docs.cpanel.net/openapi/whm/operation/parse_dns_zone/

  You can also export the entire zone in one encoded output with this command:

  https://api.docs.cpanel.net/openapi/whm/operation/export_zone_files/

  Would either of these work for you?

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