Serving Your Site with External Domain Name Servers
If you host a web site on this server and have a standalone DNS server acting as a primary (master) name server for your site, you may want to set up your control panel's DNS server to function as a secondary (slave) name server:
- Go to DNS Settings.
- Click Switch DNS Service Mode in the Tools group.
- Click Add Record, specify the IP address of the primary (master) DNS server, and click OK.
To make the control panel's DNS server act as a primary for a zone:
- Click DNS Settings.
- Click Switch DNS Service Mode in the Tools group. The original resource records for the zone will be restored.
If you host a web site on this server and rely entirely on other machines to perform the Domain Name Service for your site (there are two external name servers - a primary and a secondary), switch off the control panel's DNS service for each site served by external name servers:
- Click DNS Settings.
- Click Switch Off the DNS Service in the Tools group. Turning the DNS service off for the zone will refresh the screen, so that only a list of name servers remains.
Note: The listed name server records have no effect on the system. They are only presented on the screen as clickable links to give you a chance to validate the configuration of the zone maintained on the external authoritative name servers.
To validate the configuration of a zone maintained on authoritative name servers:
- Click DNS Settings.
- Add the entries pointing to the appropriate name servers that are authoritative for the zone to the list of DNS records: click Add Record, specify a name server, and click OK. Repeat this for each name server you would like to test.
- The records will appear in the list.
- Click on the records that you have just created. Plesk will retrieve the zone file from a remote name server and check the resource records to make sure that domain's resources are properly resolved.
- The results will be interpreted and displayed on the screen.