{"id":7130,"date":"2019-02-28T18:13:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T18:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/support\/?p=7130"},"modified":"2019-02-28T18:13:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T18:13:44","slug":"dns-resolver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/support\/linux-reseller-web-hosting\/dns-resolver\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200bWhat is DNS Resolver Configuration in WHM?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nThe DNS Resolvers are playing an inevitable role in the domain name resolution. They are the servers on the ISP side to provide the requested information to the client machines with the domain name resolution results. To use a resolver, we need to specify the resolver IP address on the server configuration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Linux based server say a server running on Centos, we can specify the resolver IP address at the file \/etc\/resolv.conf. The WHM also offers an interface to configure the resolver IP address of a server. What the WHM does is to edit the \/etc\/resolv.conf file.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<aside id=\"text-16\" class=\"widget widget_text amr_widget\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><div class=\"reseller_web_hosting_support_advts\">\r\n\r\n<div class=\"reseller_web_hosting_support_advts_left\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/linux-reseller-web-hosting-india\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/336X280-saffron-unlimited-499-kickstart.gif\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" alt=\"Reseller Hosting Special Offer\"><\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"reseller_web_hosting_support_advts_right\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/linux-cloud-server-hosting-india\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/336X280-purple-enterprise-cloud-stak-19.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" alt=\"Enterprise Cloud Stack\"><\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n\n\n<aside id=\"text-20\" class=\"extendedwopts-md-center widget widget_text amr_widget\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><div class=\"reseller_web_hosting_support_advts\">\r\n<div class=\"reseller_web_hosting_support_advts_left\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/reseller-hosting-249-offer.gif\" width=\"320\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Reseller Hosting Special Offer\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"reseller_web_hosting_support_advts_right\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/reseller-hosting-249-offer.gif\" width=\"320\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Reseller Hosting Special Offer\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nStep 1: Login to WHM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, you need to login to the WHM. You could login to the WHM by appending the WHM port to the hostname of the server or IP address of the server. Please note that the hostname needs to be pointed correctly to the server to use the hostname to connect to the WHM. An example is given below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eg:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/server.domain.com:2087\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/server.domain.com:2087<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please replace the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/server.comain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">server.comain.com<\/a>&nbsp;with the hostname of the server or IP address of the server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Now another window with the text boxes to edit the resolver IP addresses will come up. You need to click on the button Proceed and you will be lead to the next page where you need to digit in the desired resolver IP addresses. As we\u2019ve seen earlier, it will edit the \/etc\/resolv.conf file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step 2 Go to the Resolver Configuration in WHM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After logging into the WHM, you need to go to the Resolver configuration. You could locate it under the Network Setup. You could also find the feature by making a search on the top left search box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this page, you could add the primary, secondary and tertiary resolver IP addresses and click on continue to proceed further. This is how we can configure the resolver IP address using WHM.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DNS Resolvers are playing an inevitable role in the domain name resolution. 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