General Information

H-Sphere DNS service uses the bind8.x package. It doesn't support bind9.x versions. As a result, if you use the Linux RedHat autoupdates, be careful not to update bind. You can totally disable DNS servers by stopping the named. If you disable signup on the server through H-Sphere web interface, old customers will keep using it, and new customers won't.

Resellers can run on dedicated and shared IPs. You can disable dedicated IP hosting for resellers. Read how to configure DNS for resellers.
* As of now we don't provide support for Reverse DNS.

DNS Config Files

The main configuration file location:
/etc/named.conf under Linux
/etc/namedb/named.conf under FreeBSD
It contains the following data:

--
options {
        directory "/hsphere/local/var/named";
        listen-on { 127.0.0.1;
        YOUR_IP_1;
        YOUR_IP_2;
        ...
        YOUR_IP_N; };
        transfer-source 127.0.0.1;
        pid-file "/hsphere/local/var/named/named.pid";
};

zone "." IN { type hint; file "local/named.ca"; };
zone "localhost" IN { type master; file "local/localhost.zone"; allow-update
{ none; }; };
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN { type master; file "local/named.local";
allow-update { none; }; };

include "zones_index.conf";
acl anyip{any;};
--

H-Sphere DNS Zones

The main named directory both on master and slave DNS servers is /hsphere/local/var/named/.

It contains the zones_index.conf file, the zones_(NUMBER).conf files and the zones(NUMBER) directories, where (NUMBER) = 1, 2, ... , 22
This structure contains H-Sphere DNS info and files. To find a zone, execute the following commands:
# cd /hsphere/local/var/named/
# grep "Zone.Name.com" *.conf
It will return the data which contains the zone file location. But please don't modify it manually, especially, if you don't understand what you do.

The localhost and 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa zones files are located in the /hsphere/local/var/named/local/ directory.

Custom DNS Zones

If you need to add a custom zone, we recommend placing it into this directory. Note that H-Sphere won't manage your custom zones, you will have to manage them manually.

Reverse DNS

H-Sphere doesn't manage reverse DNS. To configure reverse DNS globally for the main H-Sphere domain, H-Sphere owner's ISP or domain registration company should accordingly configure reverse DNS for this domain on their DNS servers.