Unable to create new site, already exists?

[RealNames]

Unable to create a new site as the domain name apparently already exists in the server, though search can not locate it.

Only reason I can think of is it may exist as a Domain Pointer within some other site. Could there be any other reason? I noticed a new site is not allowed if already is a pointer, right?

Problem is I can't determine which site it points to, since there are a lot of sites on the server. Any way to locate a domain pointer, or get a list of all?

P.S. The Pointer does not work (assuming it has one), perhaps the site it was intended to point to was not setup right or resolves, not sure why?

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

If you can't find the pointer, you can just remove the zone line from the /etc/named.conf file.

A hint in finding it would be to run this:

grep domain.com /etc/virtual/domainowners

That should spit out the owner of the domain/domainpointer, if it's being used, else remove the zone from the /etc/named.conf as mentioned above.

John