Clients without DNS?

Agon

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We got some clients, who had separate DNS and mail servers (they only bought www hosting from us), so I would like to not configure DNS records for those sites. Is it ok to simply delete DNS records DA created for them? Or any client required DNS configuration even it will not be used?

I was trying to delete NS records for these domains and create new correct NS records. But now, if I make some changes, DNS server goes down and not comes up untill i press "start" in "Service Monitor" I can't find any errors, except:

2005:03:24-19:59:00: named didn't reload properly, re-starting
2005:03:24-20:14:00: service named wasn't running, starting it
2005:03:24-22:00:00: service named wasn't running, starting it
2005:03:24-22:16:00: Error reloading service named : uid 0 gid 0 : /usr/local/etc/rc.d/named reload >>/dev/null 2>>/dev/null
2005:03:24-22:16:00: named didn't reload properly, re-starting

(in errortaskq.log)

2005:03:24-22:26:00: Socket write error: fd is connected to a pipe or socket whose reading end is closed. When this happens the writing process will also receive a SIG_PIPE signal. (Thus, the write return value is seen only if the program catches, blocks or ignores this signal.)

(in error.log)

2005:03:24-22:17:00: named reloaded
2005:03:24-22:26:00: named reloaded
2005:03:24-22:27:00: named started

(in system.log)

Mar 24 22:27:00 citrina named[23523]: starting BIND 9.3.0
Mar 24 22:27:00 citrina named[23523]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953

(in messages)

I can't find any output from BIND in logs. Is that output available?
 
You should manage DNS (including adding and subtracting DNS zones) through DirectAdmin.

BIND logs to /var/log/messages.

Jeff
 
I do manage it only from DA.

For example, there is a *.com domain with DNS hosted on jocker.com and configured on my host, so I don't need (and, as I understand, in fact I should not) to host DNS records in DA. Now, when I configure this client in DA, it creates a record in my DNS server. I tried to remove that record. It don’t worked (the client level shows errors about missing DNS). Then I tried to create the record from admin’s “DNS administration” section. I works, but DNS server don’t come back after “reload” command now (but do after “restart”). There are no error messages in logs or I am unable to find any.
 
If you remove the entire DNS zone from the admin control panel it shouldn't cause any problems.

Jeff
 
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