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[buildersweb]

Hi .. this is my first post. I am new to Hosting and i have the following question:

In cpanel I tried to park a domain and i get this error :

Error from park wrapper: Using nameservers with the following IPs: xxxxx xxxxxx Sorry, the domain is already pointed to an IP address that does not appear to use DNS servers associated with this server. Please transfer the domain to this servers nameservers or have your administrator add one of its nameservers to /etc/ips.remotedns and make the proper A entries on that remote nameserver.

I now that if i change "Allow Remote Domains" from Off to On in Main >> Server Configuration >> Tweak Settings from WHM then it will work.


I want to ask if this solution is must even thought Cpanel consider it as high risk.


If i leave it OFF how a user can park a Domain in my Cpanel ?? Maybe iam missing something in the procedure.
I also know that the domain that i want to park must resolve to my server's IP but how can i do that ??


Thanks.

[SamBarrow]

The reason that error comes up is because the domain is pointed to another server.
If you set the nameservers for the domain to your server before adding it in cpanel, you shouldn't get that error.

[buildersweb]

Originally Posted by samb0057

The reason that error comes up is because the domain is pointed to another server.
If you set the nameservers for the domain to your server before adding it in cpanel, you shouldn't get that error.

The nameservers of the domain from Registrar are set up to point my server and from DNS lookup the Ns1 and NS2 ip's are OK. There are 3 days passed so it is not a matter of time even

[humawebdesign]

The error which they are showing is pointing towards nameserver and according to you, you have already made changes in it then i think you should contact your hosting technical department to checkout this problem.

[buildersweb]

Originally Posted by humawebdesign

The error which they are showing is pointing towards nameserver and according to you, you have already made changes in it then i think you should contact your hosting technical department to checkout this problem.

I asked here because from Cpanel support told me that the NS from the domain are not enough to Park the Domain and i want to clear it out.

Here is their answer:

"I understand that the domain example.com had your nameservers listed in the whois information, but it did not resolve to an IP address. This is because there was no DNS zone for the domain in your nameservers. Parking the domain creates the DNS zone; until the domain is configured on your server there is no DNS zone for the domain on your server. Just because the domain lists the correct nameservers in the whois information, does not mean it resolves to your server. What matters is a host lookup on the domain, and without a DNS zone for the domain existing on your server, the host lookup fails to return an IP address."


So what is your opinion from your experience ?

Thanks for your help

[GH_Dom]

There may be an option in your domain registrar's control panel to park your domain.