Hi,

I see that Cpanel offer a stand-alone DNS option now. Has anybody used it? Is it any good and better to use than DNS on a webserver? If I have a webserver with DNS already and set one of those up will it sync all records of off the webserver and put them on the DNS server and then add all changes to the DNS server in future when new domains are added or DNS changed?

Thanks,
James

I've never had any experience with cPanel's standalone version of DNS. But why not just use named(aka bind)?

Well it's bind anyway I think... The problem would be propagating changes if its not built into cpanel..

It works fine. Yes it will copy the existing records on to the machine and stay updated from that point on. They released a new version not too long ago that fixed a lot of the bugs in the old version.

Cool. I will install it on a VPS... Hope that is sufficent for it.

A VPS will work fine.

Hi

I am trying to move cpanel account from the old server to the new one.
Once the account restored on the new server, the restore utility automatically changes the DNS records for that account to point to the new server IP.
Is there any option to keep the DNS records unchanged during the server migration?
The account web contents big and dynamic and I'd like to make a couple of syncs prior to the final servers switch.

Thanks!

Once the account is copied over, you could manually edit the DNS zone files to point back to the IP you want it to point to for now.