I had many domain pointers to setup so instead of adding them one-by-one into DA, I tried this: created an appropriate domain.com.db for each domain and inserted them all into /var/named/. I then added the entries to /etc/named.conf.
The domains and proper dns files showed up on DirectAdmin...
I am new to DA servers, and have been experimenting with this for several days. I have 3 servers: 2 application servers, each a name server, and 1 database server. All three have DirectAdmin installed. They are each currently set-up like this:
server1-application ip1 ID1.domain.com...