Service DNS Automation

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Last updated: Jun 19, 2023 by HostBill
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You can find this section in HostBill Admin Area → Settings → General settings → DNS Settings→ Service DNS Automation.

Table of contents

Overview

Zone and subdomain creation rules are built for services which does not provide its own DNS generation
That is for services like VPS, where IP is known and zone can be auto-created by HostBill

For shared hosting, its best to rely on related control panel DNS generation

Zone creation rules

Apply Zone creation rules

This option allows to decide when to apply Zone creation rules:

Create new Zone creation rule

To add new Zone creation rule click on the green "New Zone creation rule" button and enter:

  • Automation name
  • Automation description
  • Products - select products for which zone should be created upon account creation
  • DNS Service package - this package will be added to customer account (if it does not already exist) and zone will be created in it
  • Default IP - if HostBill will be unable to determine what IP to use when creating zone/A records, it will use this one
  • DNS Template - if selected, it will be applied on newly created zone
  • Optionally, you can also choose to Remove zone on terminate 

Create new Subdomain creation rule

To add new Subdomain creation rule click on the green "New Subdomain creation rule" button and enter:

  • Automation name
  • Automation description
  • DNS Service package - this package will be added to customer account (if it does not already exist) and zone will be created in it
  • Domain List - a list of domains where A/AAAA records can be created for clients. Zones should already be present in related DNS server.
  • Blocked Name List - list of blocked names (eg www, ns1, ns2, mail etc.)