Hey guys,

I'm looking for thoughts on DNS clustering. I know for cPanel, you can use cPanel DNS only, but what about solutions for other control panels as well.

I've found some DNS clustering software that helps coordinate servers in a DNS cluster. It's based on BIND, and so the servers can use it regardless of what control panel is on the server. The site is dnscluster.eu. Has anyone tried this software out?

If not, how do you do your DNS Cluster, and what software, if any, are you using?

Thanks!

I know I can't be the only host using a DNS clustering system...

We use straight BIND but if you want some GUI use Windows.

Has anyone used the Cpanel DNS only? I'm interested in feedback from that product.

BIND with custom scripting to update X master DNS servers in geographically diverse locations.

- John C.

We use cPanel DNS clustering and it works well for us.

We use straight BIND but if you want some GUI use Windows.

Has anyone used the Cpanel DNS only? I'm interested in feedback from that product.

Works great for us. That's what we're currently using, but it seems to really only work with cPanel. I'm wanting to adjust my software in order to take other control panels as well.

RNDC / Bind - you would have one machine as your master, and when a record is created, no matter what machine it's created on, (even if it's not a true answering dns server) you can use rndc to push (or pull) that zone to your master, and update your slaves that it now exists, go pull the record.

I can think of about 4-5 different ways to do this..not really sure what you are aiming for.

We also use cpanel DNS clustering, and it works fairly well.

We'll be introducing some plesk windows servers soon... but we will probably set them up with different nameservers to keep windows/linux totally seperate.

how stable is the cPanel DNS ONLY platform?

how stable is the cPanel DNS ONLY platform?

Cpanel is just a GUI for whatever DNS is running on the box, usually Bind, so it's as stable as Bind.

how stable is the cPanel DNS ONLY platform?

It's a lot better now days.

We use cPanel DNS clustering and it works well for us.

The only problem with cPanel DNS clustering is:

Let's say you have 10 shared servers, if anyone gets into WHM as root on any of the 10, they can delete all domains on all the servers.

If you look at 'List Domains' on your other servers in WHM, you will see everyone's domain, cPanel syncs up all servers with each other, even though it's not supposed to.

They say it's supposed to be like that, but I think it's a huge security flaw.

yup, thats something that has also bothered me with cpanel, which i do use, just not in a clustering scenario

We use DA's DNS cluster setup.