DirectAdmin Multi-Server is a feature specifically designed to synchronize DNS records across multiple DirectAdmin servers. It provides a convenient and automated way to ensure consistency and reliability of DNS information across your server infrastructure.
When you have multiple DirectAdmin servers in your setup, each server can act as a DNS server for the domains hosted on that particular server. However, managing DNS records individually for each server can be time-consuming and prone to errors. That’s where DirectAdmin Multi-Server comes in.
By enabling the Multi-Server feature, you establish a master-slave relationship between your servers. One server is designated as the “master” server, while the others are configured as “slave” servers. The master server acts as the authoritative source for DNS records, and any changes made to the DNS records on the master server are automatically synchronized with the slave servers.
This synchronization process ensures that all DNS records, such as A records, CNAME records, MX records, and others, remain consistent across all servers. Whenever a change is made to a DNS record on the master server, the changes are propagated to the slave servers, ensuring that the updated DNS information is available on all servers.
DirectAdmin Multi-Server simplifies the management of DNS records in a multi-server environment, reduces the chances of inconsistencies or discrepancies between servers, and helps ensure that all servers provide accurate DNS resolution for the hosted domains.
This will be a short and simple tutorial to explain one thing, and one thing only – how to force DirectAdmin Zone Transfer. Zone transfer is a feature you use to synchronize your DNS records between multiple DNS servers. In this case, we’re using DirectAdmin web hosting (Use coupon EBLOG for amazing 50% off recurring on any plan), so if you’re using another control panel, such as cPanel or VestaCP, this tutorial will not apply to you. Let’s start, shall we?
Provided that you’ve already got the DirectAdmin Multi Server setup, this is what you need to do:
- Log in, via SSH, to the DirectAdmin server you want to transfer the DNS zones from
- Execute this command: echo “action=rewrite&value=named” >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue
- Wait for about a minute or two, and the transferred zones will appear on the other servers you’ve configured on the Multi Server page.
Pretty simple, right? I bet you expected more. Sorry to disappoint – it only takes 3 steps to Force DirectAdmin Zone Transfer. Looking for DirectAdmin web hosting? We offer it as standard on our shared hosting plans, and as an optional addon on our Offshore VPS and Offshore Dedicated Servers.