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title: "\"DNSAdmin appears to be down\". What is DNSAdmin?"
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updated: 2026-04-13T04:11:33Z
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# "DNSAdmin appears to be down". What is DNSAdmin?

**DNSAdmin** is a cPanel-developed script that acts as an intermediary API between WHM and BIND to increase the performance of DNS record updates.

## From cPanel’s release notes:

*"DNSAdmin, the system that cPanel & WHM uses to perform DNS updates, can now be run as a service (daemon). This eliminates the need for it to start up and shut down each time a DNS change is made. During testing, it was able to process 22x as many DNS update requests in the same time. This should increase performance for users running DNSONLY."*

Occasionally, you may see a notification email such as:

![](https://cdn0.mysau.com.au/helpcenter_attachments/115005079586/Screen_Shot_2017-10-06_at_10.04.42_am.png)

This behaviour is not a fault. cPanel will regularly unload services from memory if they have been inactive for 10 minutes. This behavior can be adjusted in "Home >> Server Configuration >> Tweak Settings >> Software"