cPanel DNS Helper

Overview

cPanel DNS Helper is an extension shipped with cPanel v2 module to help you connect your cPanel installations with one of the HostBill-supported DNS services:

• Power DNS
• Power DNS Slave Zones
• OnApp DNS
• cPanel DNS
• ...or any other DNS HostBill supports

Why may I need this?

cPanel handles DNS really well, but if you have multiple services not related to cPanel which you wish to plug into single/centralised DNS installation that is not backed by cPanel DNS it makes managing DNS tricky. 

Or maybe you want to hook up your PowerDNS to store slave zones, while your cPanel would keep master zone records.

This is where our cPanel/HostBill DNS helper kicks in.

How it works?

• In your cPanel installations you setup DNS templates to use your actual master nameserver (i.e. cPanel, Power DNS, cPanel DNS)
• cPanel DNS Helper periodically polls all configured cPanel servers for zones, and fetches their details using cPanel API
• HostBill then "decides" what to do next. It can:
  • Push this zone to real master nameserver
  • Notify secondary nameserver to create/update slave zone
  • After exporting such zone, HostBill can assign it to the related customer 

So you can have:

• Slave DNS (any supported by HostBill) notified automatically about new zones in cPanel, or:
• cPanel DNS will not be used to handle DNS queries, but as a source of data for actual DNS server that handles requests.
  With this approach you can benefit from flexible & automated DNS templates built into cPanel on any central DNS server you wish to use with it.