Disabling DNS / Exim

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vispnoc

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How do we configure DNS so that for a particular reseller or a particular site admin, DNS is disabled. What I mean by disabled is that the CP doesn' create any DNS entries or zones for any domain name related to that site. We have several sites that use outside DNS servers and don't want DA handling the DNS for them.

This also brings up an EXIM question of, for the same sites email should be delivered according to the MX records of the foreign DNS servers and not local.
 
Thanks but they don't fullfill the full request. The DNS link disables DNS altogether.. That is not my goal. I only need it disabled for some sites and/or resellers. Same with the email.

CK
 
Hey,

Sorry about that... should of read it slower...

We've got Users that use DNS on other DNS servers (ours) and we simply set their DNS servers to those other servers in DA...

And of course, the name servers for the domain are set the same at the registrar.

DA still creates the zone/records... Maybe I can delete the zone, I've never tried as it works OK now.

Local and remote mail delivers OK.

Am I getting closer? %^)

David
 
Closer but I think our results are different. If I leave the bad zone in bind, then local DNS lookups for info are wrong. (Apache resolves wrong for starters). If we delete the DNS zone then the local box cannot resolve DNS for that/those domains correctly.. And for the email side, even if we go as far as telling it what the real MX records are, I keep getting complaints from users that webmail and script email traffic from the server is bouncing back.. Basically internal email routing doesn't work correctly.
 
Hey,

A quick note... One thing I forgot to mention... Our resolv.conf points to external DNS servers...

David
 
vispnoc said:
If we delete the DNS zone then the local box cannot resolve DNS for that/those domains correctly.. And for the email side, even if we go as far as telling it what the real MX records are, I keep getting complaints from users that webmail and script email traffic from the server is bouncing back.. Basically internal email routing doesn't work correctly.
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The problem appears to be that /etc/resolv.conf contains your machine's nameserver, and your nameserver is set to nonrecursive lookups only.

This is a server configuration issue. /etc/resolv.conf must point to only recursive nameservers.

Your symptoms are those of /etc/resolv.conf pointing to a nonrecursive server.

Jeff
 
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