Best approach to setup a DirectAdmin Multi Server DNS Cluster

Asim

Hello everyone,

I am using cPanel/WHM since 2001 so I know it inside out. Doing a cPanel cluster on it is pretty straight forward

I am new to directadmin (thanks to @AnthonySmith, @seriesn and anynode.net for the free DA licenses)
I want to setup two DirectAdmin nodes and four NS nodes

DirectAdmin Nodes (the full package)

• vps1
• vps2

NameServers only nodes running DirectAdmin (no hosting accounts, just syncing DNS data)

• ns1
• ns2

Question

1. What is the best way to maintain two NS at least in DirectAdmin?
2. How do I migrate accounts between vps1 and vps2 while auto-fixing the DNS in the cluster (like cPanel-DNSOnly do it)?
3. How can I make sure that only one instance of the username exists in the cluster (including the NS)?

I have followed this and its working BUT whats the optimal way of doing it?
https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=97

seriesn

I could be wrong and @Francisco or @SmallWeb might be able to share the best practices.

When you are just doing standard migration (backup/restore), you will need to remove the old zone. Else there will be conflicts.

On the cluster settings, I just keep zone transfer enabled. Everything else is disabled.

My way of migration has always been, backup, transfer, delete, wait couple of minutes for the zones to remove and restore.

I could be wrong but it doesn’t create “access” for the other users on separate servers.