DirectAdmin 1.696

[fln]

We are happy to announce the release of DirectAdmin 1.696.

A full release change log is here:

DirectAdmin 1.696​

The update should be automatically available for all installations subscribed to the current release channel.

We appreciate all the feedback on forums and issues reported in the ticketing system.

Thanks!

 

[Ohm J]

What's happend if we using cloudflare as DNS Manager and don't add any "NS" record into the cloudflare ?

 

[fln]

What's happend if we using cloudflare as DNS Manager and don't add any "NS" record into the cloudflare ?

I assume the question is about the new check we perform before issuing the wildcard certificates. It could be one of the following situations:

• Use CF for DNS and issue non-wildcard certificates. The NS records does not matter, the NS check will not be performed.
• Use CF for DNS and issue wildcard certificates and have CF configured as DNS provider for the ACME challenge. The NS records does not matter, the NS check will not be performed.
• Use CF for DNS and issue wildcard certificates and have no custom DNS provider configuration for ACME DNS challenge. The NS records will be checked and DA will refuse to issue wildcard cert. But even if DA would not refuse it at the early stage, it would still fail to issue the wildcard certificate. This is because without custom DNS provider config DA would try adding DNS challenge records to the domain zone (which it does not control) and the challenge would fail.

If you have some other non-standard configuration and the NS check causes you problems - let us know. The purpose of this check is NOT to limit users ability to issue wilcard certs, but to fail early in situations when we know it is guaranteed to fail if we continue.