Setting up Private Nameservers in Cpanel Published: Oct 28, 2003

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  Jason Ruyle 00:22, December 7, 2003

  I'm trying to manually setup my name servers. But I dont know how they should look in:
  
  /etc/wwwacct.conf
  
  and
  
  /etc/nameserverips
  
  Could you make a general format? Thanks.
• 
  Ramprage 00:36, December 8, 2003

  Article updated
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  Curtis 18:13, April 10, 2004

  Awesome! Walked me thru it step by step. Thanks!
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  tony 20:20, May 19, 2004

  Thanks
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  roy 07:37, May 23, 2004

  I can't seem to find Initial NameServer Setup from the Server Setup menu on the left of WHM.
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  janitor 15:06, June 12, 2004

  great
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  monkeygirl 16:45, September 8, 2004

  thanks for the info!
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  Charlie 06:39, November 26, 2004

  On my server WHM 9.9.8 cPanel 9.9.8-R119 there was no Initial Nameserver Setup but I did find Nameserver Setup under Service Configuration and this seemed to work just fine.<br />
  <br />
  When I typed /etc/resolv.conf I would get a message 'Permission Denied'. Seemed that typing 'cat /etc/resolv.conf' solved this problem.<br />
  
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  Charlie 13:57, November 26, 2004

  To output the resolv.conf you must type<br />
  <br />
  'cat /etc/resolv.conf'<br />
  <br />
  To edit resolv.conf use pico / type:<br />
  <br />
  'pico /etc/resolv.conf'<br />
  <br />
  In my Web Host Manager there was no 'Initial NameServer Setup' under the Server Setup menu but there was a 'NameServer Setup' under 'Service Configuration'. Used this instead and it seemed to work.
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  Charlie 14:37, November 26, 2004

  I had a huge problem with the /scripts/named.conf not working and getting errors when I tried to Bind. This forum solved those problems:<br />
  <br />
  http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=253245<br />
  
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  Gabidi 20:53, December 24, 2004

  When i ever i try to setup i get the following error after entering a Name server assigning it an IP and then attempting to add an entry for it:<br />
  <br />
  "IP=205.209.141.21 Bind reloading on orion using rndc zone: [gsmliberty.com] Error reloading bind on orion: rndc: connection to remote host closed This may indicate that the remote server is using an older version of the command protocol, this host is not authorized to connect, or the key is invalid. Add Complete" <br />
  <br />
  Any ideas ?
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  Tong Narak 12:07, June 28, 2005

  /etc/resolv.conf<br />
  <br />
  I think these should be<br />
  Datacenter DNS.<br />
  <br />
  <br />
  ------------------------------------<br />
  <br />
  Resolver Setup <br />
  Enter the ip address of at least two nameservers that you will use for dns resolution. Your datacenter should be able to provide you with at least one ip of a dns server you can access. If you do not know the ip address of your provider's local resolvers you should contact them. It is very important that these nameservers are correct, or you server will not function properly. If you do not know what to put in the boxes below and cannot contact your provider, please close this window and go though this setup at a later time; Your server should still function normally, however connections made to the server may be slower then normal.
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  Martyn 10:11, August 1, 2005

  Re: Tong Narak<br />
  <br />
  You are correct, these IP addresses should be the ones provided by your host, they are internal and point to your internal DNS resolvers.
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  Joe A 12:28, November 19, 2005

  This is the first time I've ever seen a comprehensive explanation of how to do this. Thank you.
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  josh 06:16, February 13, 2006

  Yeah, well i have added the nameserver/ip/info and followed what was said, but i can only resolve hosts via nslookup on that LOCAL machine, the outside world never resolves correctly, any clues?
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  Aziz 05:25, March 10, 2006

  You can actually put any name servers any /etc/resolve.conf, it is just a resolver and has nothing to do with running a DNS server.
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  alberto 02:58, April 29, 2006

  4. Reverse DNS<br />
  You may also need to get your data centre to enter a reverse DNS pointer for your nameserv.....<br />
  <br />
  ALLL OK BUT STEP 4.. what i have to do here? contact with my ISP?<br />
  <br />
  thank you!
• 
  David K. Tucker 09:13, May 6, 2006

  Truly appreciate the help. Set my ATJEU.COM dedicated nameservers up in no time :-) Really appreciate it.<br />
  <br />
  --DAVE
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  Sparky 05:11, July 21, 2006

  Great tutorial - one problem though - dns server appears to work, but now doing a hostname lookup to hosts outside of the server (to yahoo.com, for example) fails.<br />
  <br />
  Hostname lookups to hosts on the dns server work fine, just cannot see any hosts outside of the server.<br />
  <br />
  /etc/resolv.conf looks like:<br />
  <br />
  domain mydomain.com<br />
  search mydomain.com<br />
  nameserver x.x.x.x<br />
  nameserver x.x.x.x<br />
  <br />
  Any thoughts?
• 
  Koh Kok Yew 20:52, August 31, 2006

  To Gabidi:<br />
  <br />
  To fix this issue you may try running `/scripts/fixndc`
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  ZeRoo! 02:06, January 22, 2007

  thank you!
• 
  Deni Wibowo 11:15, July 5, 2007

  I have same problem on named failure.<br />
  I just removing them an then reinstall using yum.<br />
  <br />
  #yum remove bind<br />
  #yum install bind bind-chroot bind-devel caching-nameserver<br />
  <br />
  and then restarting bind<br />
  <br />
  #service named start<br />
  <br />
  and done.
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  Dr Tokunboh 10:02, October 19, 2007

  this is kind of difficult. i dont think i can handle ssh - what can i do?
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  dvijai 11:29, August 1, 2010

  I afraid to understand theat in domain control penal, wher to register, i maen, under which tab we need to register the ns1 and ns2, while there are many tabs like overview, name server, child name server, and many more.
  
  i am talking about pont no. 3. Registering the Nameservers
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  Myth 08:40, August 2, 2010

  THANK YOU !