Hi,

We r planning to setup primary and secondary DNS machines (2 separate DNS servers) to serve a few other servers that run WHM/CPanel.

Does anyone have any experience with this? What problems could we have with this? What is the best way to set it up? Can DNS tables updated automatically when an account is created in WHM?

There is a function in WHM called Synchronize DNS Records With Primary Nameserver and there's Establish A Trust Relationship With a Primary Nameserver are these of any use?

Hi Kulman,
Did you manage to create the nameservers in the manner that you wanted I hope you can help me with the same problem.

Thanks in advance

I've actually just set up this configuration. My current setup is one dedicated DNS server(actually a VM) and one dedicated hosting server that's also a VM.

After a couple days of research I found that cPanel actually has a software out for this purpose that's called cPanel DNS only and is completely free. It's critical that you have root on both machines and that the DNS server you're using is a completely fresh Linux install.

Some fairly decent instructions for this setup can be found in the top few results of a google search. The best I've found were on cPanel's documentation but I'm unable to post a link due to WHT's restrictions.

Please let me know if you have any problems and I'll be happy to help. While not complete I'm setting up a hosting site myself and would be happy to configure and host DNS servers for you fairly cheaply if you'd prefer to just offload the task. Cheers!

+1 for using cPanel DNSONLY for this. I have a low volume server, so I have a 128MB VPS from BuyVM.NET and another one from Hostigation.com running cPanel DNSONLY. They sync to my main site server (and when I had two servers, it worked just as flawlessly).

Check out http://cpanel.net/products/cpanelwhm/related-server-software.html for instructions.

What is the best way to set it up?


1 x US VPS
(Both using different providers at different datacenters, etc)
1 x UK VPS

Then install DNS ONLY but remember to secure it and put the IPs in your servers firewall.

You can also disable some things in DNS ONLY to make it run alittle lighter :)

(EDIT: Ive just noticed the OP date, Why do people bump threads from years ago, This makes me upset)

If you'd waited less than a month, you could've revived this thread for its tenth anniversary. ;)