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DirectAdmin: Adding a DMARC record to help lower your spam score

What is DMARC?

DMARC, which stands for “Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance”, is an email authentication, policy, and reporting protocol. It builds on the widely deployed SPF and DKIM protocols, adding linkage to the author (“From:”) domain name, published policies for recipient handling of authentication failures, and reporting from receivers to senders, to improve and monitor protection of the domain from fraudulent email.

Who Can Use DMARC?

DMARC policies are published in the public Domain Name System (DNS), and available to everyone. Because the specification is available with no licensing or similar restriction, any interested party is free to implement it.

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DirectAdmin 1.53.1 Release Candidate 1

Hello,

We’re pleased to announce the 1.53.1 release candidate for DirectAdmin:

Version: 1.53.1 RC1

All features and fixes are listed here:
https://www.directadmin.com/versions…rsion=1.531000

If you find any issues, please reply here with reports (rather than tickets or email, unless requested) to avoid duplicate reports.

The biggest new feature will be the LetsEncrypt wildcard certificates.
NOTE: To use it, you must enable dns_ttl=1 for per-record TTL settings, or else the LE Wildcard checkbox won’t show up.

If all goes well, the full/stable release is slated for June 26th.

To download this version, please grab the pre-release binaries:
https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=408

John

Source: Official DirectAdmin Announcements

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Enabling DNSSSEC on your DirectAdmin server

DNSSEC is a tool used to verify the validity of a dns lookup.
You can enable this feature in DirectAdmin 1.44.1 and newer by typing:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts
./dnssec.sh install

After the command has been successfully executed. Please add the following to the ‘options { …. }’ section of your /etc/bind/named.conf.options:

dnssec-enable yes;
dnssec-validation yes;
dnssec-lookaside auto;
bindkeys-file "/etc/bind/named.iscdlv.key";

which should confirm if your named.conf is set, and will enable the dnssec=1 in the directadmin.conf automatically. If the script thinks you’re missing anything from your named.conf, it will tell you what to add.

To enable DNSSEC on a domain, go to:
Admin Level -> DNS Admin -> prado.lt

1. Click “Generate Keys”
2. then click “Sign”

3. You should now see values at the bottom of the zone. Copy the 2 DS records, and paste them into your domain registrar’s website.

If you have any subdomains created as full domains, you’ll need to follow extra steps to continue the chain of trust up the line into the main domain’s zone. For normal subdomains created under a domain, no extra action is required, as they’re part of the domain’s normal zone.

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Security & bug fix releases PHP 7.1.18, 7.2.6

Security & bug fix releases

http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.1.18

http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.2.6

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.6. This is a primarily a bugfix release which includes a memory corruption fix for EXIF.

PHP 7.2 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.1.18. All PHP 7.1 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
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Security & bug fix releases PHP 5.6.36, 7.0.30, 7.1.17, 7.2.5

Security & bug fix releases

http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.6.36

http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.0.30

http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.1.17

http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.2.5

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.5. This is a security release which also contains several minor bug fixes.

All PHP 7.2 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.0.30. This is a security release. Several security bugs have been fixed in this release. All PHP 7.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

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DirectAdmin announced that all DirectAdmin and CustomBuild 2.0 now support MySQL 5.7

Hello,

DirectAdmin announced that all DirectAdmin and CustomBuild 2.0 now support MySQL 5.7.

Related changes done to DirectAdmin to support it:
https://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1840

It was actually added back in DA 1.52.0 (October 2017), while DA 1.53.0 is the current version, but wasn’t announced right away to give time for proper testing, which seems to all check out now.

MAKE SQL BACKUPS BEFORE UPGRADING see below.

CustomBuild 2.0 should automatically set the mysql_milestone_16=1 directadmin.conf value for you, so as long as CB2 does the upgrade, you should be fine.

To do the upgrade from an older MySQL version to MySQL 5.7, run:

Code:
cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build set mysql 5.7
./build set mysql_inst mysql
./build set mysql_backup yes
./build update

#make a backup that wont be overwritten, rename the folder
./build mysql_backup
mv mysql_backups mysql_backups.`date +%F`

./build mysql
./build php n
service httpd restart

Related guide:
https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=240

If you’re running MariaDB, then switching to MySQL might not be 100% straightforward, as higher versions of MariaDB cannot be directly switched over. But (for example), if you’re running a working MariaDB 5.5, then switch to MySQL 5.5, then switch to MySQL 5.7.