Next Big Thing?

In fact Jeff, we're actually using another system to replicate our zones at the moment, but we will be switching to the DirectAdmin solution within a few months.

The thing is, you can use another system, spend lets say a day to configure it to your needs and have it set. However, things can take time if you have 20+ servers. So if you get like 2 or 3 external DNS servers controlled by DirectAdmin it probably will be up and running a lot quicker.

Haven't tried master2slave though. I always found it to be a promising program but we switched to the other solution before the beta was finished. Though since the last DirectAdmin release I'm beginning to look forward to an easy to control fallback mx solution *hint* ;)
 
You and a lot of other people.

I'm one of those people who don't believe in backup MX, so it probably won't happen from me.

You could possibly convince me, but to do it you'd have to convince me of doing the work necessary to keep the list of users on the backup MX box up-to-date at all times.

And that's a pain.

Not having it up-to-date is a worse pain, because then the backup MX has to accept mail for all those nonexistent usernames, and gets stuck with a zillion undeliverable emails it's required by the RFCs to return if it can't deliver them.

No, I don't write software that's broken before it's started.

Jeff
 
DirectAdmin Support said:
Hello,

Ok, so what do you think would be more flexible for this case?
A domain skip list, a domain allow list, a reseller skip/allow list? User Level?

I'm not looking to make it over complicated, simpler the better, but keeping in mind functionality for everyone.

John
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Hi John,

Maybe add an option on to the creation of Reseller/User Packages for Multi-Server (default to enabled) and add a domain exclude list on the Admin level.

This way you have a flexible and simple solution and DA admins/resellers can sell this as an add-on if they want.

Regards,
Onno Vrijburg
 
jlasman said:
No, I don't write software that's broken before it's started.
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You don't? A shame ;)

Anyway I totally agree with you. Fallback MX is a complete different story than secundary DNS is. I don't expect it to be a feature coming in the near future.
 
Does this feature mean if i have two direct admin machines, and this is setup correctly, if one crashes, the other machine will pick up the slack? no server downtime?

-C
 
polo said:
Does this feature mean if i have two direct admin machines, and this is setup correctly, if one crashes, the other machine will pick up the slack? no server downtime?
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No this is not high-availability or fail-over. This is "slave" DNS. The new/modified DNS records will be copied accross to all the servers you specify, it will not modify the zone information and it will not copy sites accross.

Regards,
Onno Vrijburg
 
rldev said:
I am wondering if anyone knows what is the next big item DA is working on. We have only seen minor updates for a while now.

What happened to clustering?
Jail ssh?
Restore function for Admin backup?
Email user cp?
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I would hope the next big thing would be to get the user and reseller backups working properly.

Then an admin restore.

After a few recent headaches I've decided it's no good having stuff that half works and just adding more new things.

</rant>

But DA is still my control panel of choice!

Rob
 
Well user backups work well but things need revamping.

For example how do I backup my reseller's package list using the DA gui? I cant I think.
How do I backup the reseller's actual accounts?
How do I backup the reseller's customers using the DA gui and without using their traffic quota?
How do I backup current tickets in the DA gui?
After all this whats the restore procedure?

Answer is a lot of manual work.

Backing up admin's user's works fine and restore works almost fine but occasional file permission problems.
 
Quite an old thread, but Chrysialis' mentioned issues have been solved now :) With "Admin Backup/Transfer" :) That's great, but it took 2 years.. (after this post)
 
So whats on the horizon ?
fully intergrated with mysql, oh dreams are free !
If only :)
 
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