For all intents and purposes, dns can be considered almost like the internet’s phonebook. At least that’s how it’s most often metaphorically explained. However, your domain’s dns zone is slightly less like an old yellow pages and much more like the saved contacts list within your cell phone. You enter a phone number and a name to go with the phone number, hit save and then you can promptly forget the phone number …
cPanel is great for managing websites, apps, and email accounts hosted on servers in data centers, but many people also want to host online services at their home or business. Unfortunately, many residential and business ISPs don’t offer dedicated IP addresses, which means that you can’t use a domain name to connect to services hosted on their networks. The solution is dynamic dns, which automatically updates domain records when IP addresses change. It is incredibly …
The domain name system (dns) is fiendishly complicated, and managing the nameservers that power it can be perplexing. Server administrators know how frustrating it is to change dns configurations and patiently wait for them to propagate, only to find out something went wrong and the site is still unreachable. You’ll be happy to hear that cPanel & WHM makes it super easy to manage domains and even a private nameserver. In this article, we’re …
In the event you missed it, we published a blog post back in December of 2018, announcing the deprecation of Mydns and NSD. Now that Powerdns has been the choice dns Management tool of cPanel & WHM for several versions, the request for dnsSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) clustering has become even more popular. Well, you’ve been asking for it, and we’re ready to deliver it. Coming with …
One of the useful features that we offer with cPanel & WHM is the ability to run your own dns server . The nameserver features we have provided in the past have included Powerdns, Mydns, BIND, and NSD. With the release of cPanel & WHM Version 78, we are deprecating NSD and Mydns. New installations of cPanel & WHM version 78 will not allow you to select the NSD …
It’s been more than 10 years since we first released cPanel dnsOnly, and it’s remained one of the best parts of cPanel & WHM. Historically, dnsOnly servers have not required a cPanel license of any kind, but that’s about to change. What is dnsOnly? In case you aren’t familiar, dnsOnly is a free limited-feature cPanel & WHM server type. It allows server administrators to run nameservers on their own dedicated servers.
In cPanel & WHM 11.30, we added the ability to add 3rd party systems to your dns cluster. With this ability, we added functionality that allows you to create dnsadmin plugins. You can use these plugins to control and configure remote nodes of your dns cluster. The plugins themselves consist of a few Perl modules. Creating a dnsadmin plugin will require some familiarity with Perl. To begin building a dnsadmin plugin, …
cPanel & WHM’s main shared IP address is used by new shared hosting accounts created on a server. This allows web hosts to create new accounts easily and automates the otherwise complex and time-consuming domain and web server configuration process. But what if you want to change the main shared IP address on your cPanel server? In this article, we outline a three-step process for changing a server’s shared IP address. Changing the main shared …
Many of the most complex systems on the web deal with naming and identity verification. If you manage a website, you’re already familiar with web URLs, IP addresses, signed SSL certificates, and perhaps cryptocurrency addresses. But what if you could have a single name that links to all of your online identities, an identifier that is uniquely yours and tied to your social media handles and domain names? And what if, instead of web addresses …
The domain name system (dns) is a part of the internet’s plumbing users may not often think about unless it stops working. It’s a different story for web hosting providers and site owners; they deal with dns directly because they depend on it to translate human-friendly web addresses into machine-friendly IP addresses. Every website has a domain name registered with a domain name registrar. The registrars work with registry operators, which manage registries—databases of …