Nameserver cluster for both DA and cPanel

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mitch2k

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Hi,

Currently I have 3 cpanel servers with about 300 accounts each. They are all synced to 3 cpanel DNS only servers which are also our public nameservers
I want to start migrating to DA. But this will take some time, and I don't want to change public nameservers.

So I want to replace the 3 cpanel DNS only servers to 3 nameservers that are control panel independent, so that I can use cpanel and DA next to each other. I would like to avoid a bunch of custom scripts, and would like to have a dashboard where I can see and manage all domains and syncs.

I have found 2 products that could do this:
Does anyone have experience with these? They both look capable and reasonable priced, but there may be other options?

Thanks
 
No, Never used a plugin. I built my own it's not too hard. Really
I use PowerDNS/Mysql with PowerDNSadmin
Plenty of Pdns tutorials. You just sync it with the master and it replicates real-time to the slaves. No scripts needed. DNS never needed scripts zone transfer is built in it by design.

github.com

GitHub - PowerDNS-Admin/PowerDNS-Admin: A PowerDNS web interface with advanced features

A PowerDNS web interface with advanced features. Contribute to PowerDNS-Admin/PowerDNS-Admin development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com
 
bdacus01 said:
No, Never used a plugin. I built my own it's not too hard. Really
I use PowerDNS/Mysql with PowerDNSadmin
Plenty of Pdns tutorials. You just sync it with the master and it replicates real-time to the slaves. No scripts needed. DNS never needed scripts zone transfer is built in it by design.

github.com

GitHub - PowerDNS-Admin/PowerDNS-Admin: A PowerDNS web interface with advanced features

A PowerDNS web interface with advanced features. Contribute to PowerDNS-Admin/PowerDNS-Admin development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com
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Are you using super masters or manually adding the domains?
 
The DA servers are the masters
PowerDNS is the secondary to the da servers

mysql is replicated to all the pdns secondaries. So on the DA masters all you need is the set the allow transfer in the named.conf.

set similar settings on pdns replication server 1 and insert a super slave (supermaster functionality) record and you are done.

any domain added in da automatically is transferred to the pdns cluster

the pdns admin is to view records. Also pdns can be both master and slave so if you need to maintain non da master records for others as a service you can.

it works great an super stable my cluster has been running fine for a year no issue.

when I moved from cpanel I wanted same thing as you brand independence.
 
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I am in a similar situation like you @mitch2k but I have only 1 dedicated server with Cpanel (DNS, WEB and MAILS all in) and I want to start migratin one by one all my accounts without downtime and no hostname NS change.

- Is that possible?
- I am looking that Cpanel to DA migration script is havving issues with emails contacts and accounts sync from Outlook. And I have a lot of mails accounts.
- Due to Cpanel license costs I have to migrate to DA but this seems to be still too young and not at all tested in migration process.

Thanks in advance!
 
I use my cpanel cluster with 3 cpanel “DNS only” boxes with DA with some scripting. All cpanel boxes and all DA boxes writes to it, absolutely no problem as long they are not blocked by CP.
 
I just have it pull the zones from each server and write the named.conf based on the zones that are present.
 
bdacus01 said:
The DA servers are the masters
PowerDNS is the secondary to the da servers

mysql is replicated to all the pdns secondaries. So on the DA masters all you need is the set the allow transfer in the named.conf.

set similar settings on pdns replication server 1 and insert a super slave (supermaster functionality) record and you are done.

any domain added in da automatically is transferred to the pdns cluster

the pdns admin is to view records. Also pdns can be both master and slave so if you need to maintain non da master records for others as a service you can.

it works great an super stable my cluster has been running fine for a year no issue.

when I moved from cpanel I wanted same thing as you brand independence.
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Looks good! I'm not 100% familiar with the powerdns setup, but I'll read myself into it.

How do you avoid issues when zones are existing on both DA and cPanel servers?
 
Hi,

I was thinking about this setup. Is this the correct approach?


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of course I'm now creating a SPOF with ns1. Should I change ns2 & ns3 to masters as well so that all cpanel/da server can AXFR to them as well?
 
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